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 Oct 2021 - ”THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN” - Danial 2
26th Sept 2021 - ”The Church That Won‘t Be Silenced” - Acts 4:1-31
19th Sept 2021 - ”There is power in the name of Jesus” - Acts 3
12th Sept 2021 - ”What Kind of Church” - Acts 2:42-47
5th Sept 2021 - ”Daniel‘s Faithfulness” - Daniel 1
29th Aug 2021 - "The Message of God's Mission" - Acts 2:1-41
22nd Aug 2021 - "God's People Prepared For God's Mission" - Acts 1:12-26
8th Aug 2021 - "Do I need a Superhero like Jesus?" - Mark 10:17-31
1st August 2021 - "The Transforming Power of God" - Isaiah 61:1-11
25th July 2021 - "God is Jealous" - Exodus 20:1-6 & 34:12-14
18th July 2021 - "The past and future that drives the present" - Titus 2(ESV)
11th July 2021 - "A Last Request" - Adrian Rowett
27th June 2021 - "Can Someone Change?" - Acts 9:1-19
20th June 2021 - "God's Servant In Our Place" - Isaiah 53:4-6
13th June 2021 - "The Unrecognised Servant" - Isaiah 52:13 - 53:3
6th June 2021- "The Upside-down Kingdom" - Mark 10:35-45
30th May 2021 - "God's Servant, The True Disciple" - Isaiah 50
23rd May 2021 - "God's Servant Speaks" - Isaiah 49:1-13
16th May 2021 - "Meet God's Servant, Your Saviour" - Isaiah 42:1-9
9th May 2021 - "Remember the Power of Prayer" - James 5:13-20
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