Ecclesiastes
Treated in 155 passages across the library.
The reflections of "the Preacher," traditionally identified with Solomon, on the meaning of life under the sun. He tests pleasure, work, wealth and wisdom and finds them "vanity," fleeting and unable to satisfy. His conclusion points beyond them: "Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."
Chapters
The verses these writers stop at
- 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, put all your strength into it, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work and no planning, no knowledge and no wisdom. 18
- 4:9 Two are better than one, since together they get a good return for their hard work. 17
- 3:1 There is a set time for everything, a time for every matter under the heavens: 6
- 3:4 a time to cry, a time to laugh, a time to lament, a time to dance, 6
- 7:20 Indeed, there is no one on earth so righteous that they always do good and never sin. 6
- 3:11 God has made everything fitting in its own time. He has also put a sense of eternity in their hearts, but people still cannot discover the work God has done from start to finish. 5
- 4:10 If one of them falls, the other can help that one up. But woe to anyone who falls alone, with no one else to help them up! 5
- 11:1 Send your bread out on the surface of the waters, for after many days you will find it again. 5
Open Word Bible
Where it is preached
- A Body of Divinity ·
Man's Chief End cites Eccl 1:1
…stone, to search out for happiness here below, found nothing but vanity and vexation. Eccl 1:1. God is perfect, the quintessence of good. He is sweetness in the flower. God is a…
- The Ten Commandments ·
1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Eccl 5: 17
…on the wicked are effects of God’s wrath. ‘He has much wrath with his sickness.’ Eccl 5: 17. Afflictions on the wicked are the pledge and earnest of hell; they are like the…
- Holiness ·
Holiness cites Eccles. iii. 4
…is a time to weep, and a time to laugh—a time to keep silence, and a time to speak” (Eccles. iii. 4, 7); but there is no time, no, not a day, in which a man ought not to be holy. Are we?…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 15 — State in Which Man Was Created cites Eccles. 12:7
…soul, as when Solomon speaking of death says, that the spirit returns to God who gave it (Eccles. 12:7). And Christ, in commending his spirit to the Father, and Stephen his to Christ, simply…
- Portraits of Courage – C. S. Lewis ·
A Promise at Keble cites Ecclesiastes 5:4
…defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.” — Ecclesiastes 5:4, KJV Oxford at War In December 1916 Jack sat the scholarship examinations at Oxford and…
- Portraits of Courage – Elisabeth Elliot ·
8 October 1953 cites Ecclesiastes 4:9
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.” — Ecclesiastes 4:9, KJV A Wedding Without Fuss By the autumn of 1953 Elisabeth had learned enough Quichua to…
The books that return to it most
- A Body of Divinity Thomas Watson 12 passages
- The Ten Commandments Thomas Watson 9 passages
- Holiness J. C. Ryle 8 passages
- Institutes of the Christian Religion John Calvin 7 passages
- Portraits of Courage – C. S. Lewis Ochorus Originals 5 passages
- Portraits of Courage – Elisabeth Elliot Ochorus Originals 5 passages