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
20th Feb 2022 - ”God’s Mission: Planting & Building” - Acts 11:19-30
13th Feb 2022 - ”Breaking Down Walls” - Acts 10:1 - 11:18
6th Feb 2022 - ”Sin Spreads To People” - Genesis 4
23rd Jan 2022 - ”An Encounter With Jesus” - Acts 9:1-25
16th Jan 2022 - ”God’s Mission Moves” - Acts 8:26-40
9th Jan2022 - ”God’s Mission in Unlikely Places” - Acts 8:2-25
2nd Jan 2022 - ”What Does God Want From Me?” - Micah 6:1-8
26th Dec 2021 - ”Truly Free” - Galatians 4:1-7
25th Dec 2021 - ”Choose Wisely” - Matthew 2:1-12
19th Dec 2021 - ”Carol Service Message” - John 1:14-18
19th Dec 2021 - ”God‘s Promised Shepherd-King” - Micah 5:1-5
12th Dec 2021 - ”God‘s Promised Hope” - Isaiah 9:2-7
5th Dec 2021 - ”God‘s Promised Rescuer” - Genesis 3:1-15
21st Nov 2021 - ”A Message to Die For” - Acts 6:8 - 8:1
14th Nov 2021 - ”The Parable of the Great Banquet” - Luke 14:1-24
7th Nov 2021- ”The God Who Delivers” - Daniel 3
31st Oct 2021 - ”Service” - 1 Peter 4:10-11
24th Oct 2021- ”The Church Needs Fed” - Acts 6:1-7
17th Oct 2021 - ”THE CHURCH THAT (REALLY) WON‘T BE SILENCED” - Acts 5:12-42
10th Oct 2021 - ”HYPOCRISY IS DEADLY” - Acts 4:32 -5:11
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