Ecclesiastes 8:6

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Ecclesiastes 8:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

5 Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.

6 For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.

7 Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

8 As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

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Ecclesiastes 3:1

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Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

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.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

Isaiah 3:12

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Isaiah 3:13

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Isaiah 3:14

The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 22:12

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Isaiah 22:13

But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Isaiah 22:14

The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Luke 13:25

After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’

Luke 17:26

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Luke 17:27

People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:28

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Luke 17:29

But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:30

It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

Luke 19:42

and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

Luke 19:43

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

Luke 19:44

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Hebrews 3:7

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,

Hebrews 3:8

do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

Hebrews 3:9

where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

Hebrews 3:10

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

Hebrews 3:11

So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”