The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one Shepherd.
Ecclesiastes 12:11 New International Version (NIV)
A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth. It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart. Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 (NIV)
“My mind is incompetent to decide what to eat, when to sleep, and how to live. So I fired my mind, and I let an algorithm run my body.” – Don’t Die, the Man Who Wants to Live Forever.
For the wise can see where they are going, but fools walk in the dark. Yet I saw that the wise and the foolish share the same fate. Both will die.
Ecclesiastes 2:14-16 New Living Translation (NLT)
For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 (NLT)
For people and animals share the same fate—both breathe and both must die. So people have no real advantage over the animals. How meaningless! Both go to the same place—they came from dust and they return to dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 (NLT)
For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 (NLT)
A good reputation is more valuable than costly perfume. And the day you die is better than the day you are born. Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties. After all, everyone dies—so the living should take this to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence on us. A wise person thinks a lot about death, while a fool thinks only about having a good time.
Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 (NLT)
A good reputation is better than a fat bank account. Your death date tells more than your birth date. You learn more at a funeral than at a feast— after all, that’s where we’ll end up. We might discover something from it. Crying is better than laughing. It blotches the face but it scours the heart. Sages invest themselves in hurt and grieving. Fools waste their lives in fun and games
Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 The Message (MSG)
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
Ecclesiastes 7:4 (NIV)
When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?
1 Corinthians 15:54-55 (NIV)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: ‘For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-39 (NIV)
Have you accepted your earthly mortality and that of your loved ones? Have you accepted that all of this is one day going to end? Have you accepted that there is only One who can actually save you from death?