The Best Bible Verses in Ecclesiastes (ESV)

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Ecclesiastes

•   Ecclesiastes 1:2–3 “…vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?”

•   Ecclesiastes 1:9 “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”

•   Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity.

•   Ecclesiastes 2:9–11 “I became great…whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them…and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind”

•   Ecclesiastes 3:1–2 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die”

•   Ecclesiastes 3:1,4 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…a time to weep, and a time to laugh”

•   Ecclesiastes 3:1,7 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…a time to keep silence, and a time to speak”

•   Ecclesiastes 3:1,8 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…a time for war, and a time for peace”

•   Ecclesiastes 3:11 “he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.”

•   Ecclesiastes 3:20 “All are from the dust, and to dust all return.”

•   Ecclesiastes 4:5 "The fool folds his hands"

•   Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. ...a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

•   Ecclesiastes 4:13 “Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.”

•   Ecclesiastes 5:2 “Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God…Therefore let your words be few.”

•   Ecclesiastes 7:1 “A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.”

•   Ecclesiastes 7:2 “It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind”

•   Ecclesiastes 7:5 “It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.”

•   Ecclesiastes 7:14 “In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other”

•   Ecclesiastes 7:20 “Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.”

•   Ecclesiastes 7:21 “Do not take to heart all the things that people say”

•   Ecclesiastes 7:25 "I turned my heart to know & to search out & to seek wisdom & the scheme of things, & to know the wickedness of folly”

•   Ecclesiastes 8:8 “No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death.”

•   Ecclesiastes 9:2 “It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil”

•   Ecclesiastes 9:9 “Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days…that he has given you…because that is your portion in life”

•   Ecclesiastes 9:10 “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might”

•   Ecclesiastes 9:17 “The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.”

•   Ecclesiastes 10:2 “A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left.”

•   Ecclesiastes 10:12 “The words of a wise man’s mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.”

•   Ecclesiastes 10:18 “Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.”

•   Ecclesiastes 11:8 “So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all”

•   Ecclesiastes 11:9 “Rejoice, O young man, in your youth…But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.”

•   Ecclesiastes 12:1 “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come”

•   Ecclesiastes 12:7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

•   Ecclesiastes 12:11–12 “the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. My son, beware of anything beyond these.”

•   Ecclesiastes 12:12 “Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”

•   Ecclesiastes 12:13 “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”

•   Ecclesiastes 12:14 “For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.”