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
3rd Sept 2023 - ”Jesus Christ, One With Us” - Matthew 3:13-17
27th August 2023 - ”GOD KEEPS HIS WORD” - Exodus 12:29-51
20th August 2023 - ”Jesus Comes To Restore” - John 3:16-18
13th August 2023 - ”Finding Refuge With The King” - Psalm 16
6th August 2023 - ”Peter’s Denial & Restoration” - John 18:15-27 & 21:15-19
30th July 2023 - ”Peter’s Call & Confession” - Luke 5:1-11 & 9:18-20
23rd July 2023 - ”From Glory to Glory via Suffering” - Matthew 17:1-13
16th July 2023 - ”LORD OVER SICKNESS & DEATH” - Mark 5:21-43
9th July 2023 - ”Jesus the Great Restorer” - Mark 5:1-20
2nd July 2023 - ”God’s Unbreakable Promise” - Jeremiah 33:14-26
25th June 2023 - ”The Saving Power of the Lamb” - Exodus 12:1-32
18th June 2023 - ”God’s Word or God’s Judgement” - Exodus 10:21 - 11:10
11th June 2023 - ”None Like Him” - Exodus 9
4th June 2023 - ”The Living God in the Lion’s Den” - Daniel 6
28th May 2023 - ”God’s Great Acts of Judgement” - Exodus 7:1-25
21st May 2023 - ”WHO IS IN CHARGE HERE?” - Exodus 5:1 - 6:13
14th May 2022 - EQUIPPING GOD’s SERVANT” - Exodus 4:18-31
7th May 2023 - ”MEET THE TRUE KING” - Hebrews 1:1-9
30th April 2023 - ”DOUBT YOURSELF NOT GOD” -- Exodus 4:1-17
23rd April 2023 - ”A WORD YOU CAN TRUST” - Psalm 119:89-104
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