Banchory Christian Fellowship Church
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
Ecclesiastes 7:13-29
English Standard Version
13 Consider the work of God:
who can make straight what he has made crooked?
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, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
15 In my vain[a] life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. 16 Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 17 Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? 18 It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.
19 Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
21 Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. 22 Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.
23 All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me. 24 That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?
25 I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness. 26 And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her. 27 Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things— 28 which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found. 29 See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.
Footnotes
19th May 2024 - "Two Ways to Suffer" - 1 Peter 4:12-19
12th May 2024 - "Life Together" - 1 Peter 4:7-11
5th May 2024 - "Jesus Our Perfect King" - Luke 23:1-43
28th April 2024 - "THINKING LIKE JESUS" - 1 Peter 4:1-6
21st April 2024 - "Living for the Victorious Saviour" - 1 Peter 3:8-22
PM 14th April 2024 - "A family of followers" - Mark 3:31-35
14th April 2024 - "Count it all joy" - James 1:1-12
7th April 2024 - "What does God look like?" - 2 Corinthians 4:6
31st March 2024 - "CHRIST IS RISEN!" - Luke 24:1-12
24th March 2024 - "Behold Your King" - Luke 19:28-40
17th March 2024 - "LIVING FOR JESUS AT HOME" - 1 Peter 3:1-12
10th March 2024 - "FOLLOWING THE STEPS OF JESUS" - 1 Peter 2:18-25
3rd March 2024 - "TESTING JESUS" - Matthew 22:15-22
25th February 2024 - "Living as God's People in the World" - 1 Peter 2:11-17
18th February 2024 - "The Real Jesus" - Mark 8:27-38(ESV)
11th February 2024 - "BUILT ON A SURE FOUNDATION" - 1 Peter 2:4-10
4th February 2024 - "An Invitation From The King" - Matthew 22:1-14
28th January 2024 - "Serving & Showing Christ at Home & Work" - Ephesians 6:1-9
21st January 2024 - "Happy Exiles in Hard Times" - 1 Peter 1:3-12
14th January 2024 - ”Rejected by the World, Chosen by God” - 1 Peter 1:1-2
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