Proverbs 14:13

Which verses does Proverbs 14:13 point to?

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1. Ecclesiastes 2:25 votes

   I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

2. James 4:93 votes

   Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

3. Proverbs 5:42 votes

   in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

4. Ecclesiastes 7:5–62 votes

   It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools. For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

5. Ecclesiastes 11:92 votes

   Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

6. Luke 16:252 votes

   But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

7. Ecclesiastes 2:10–111 vote

   Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

8. Revelation 18:7–81 vote

   As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Which verses point to Proverbs 14:13?

Ranked by reader votes.

• James 4:9 12
• Ecclesiastes 2:2 8
• Luke 6:25 6
• 1 Kings 1:41 2