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Ecclesiastes 2:3
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3 (A)I searched in my heart how [a]to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was (B)good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 2:3 Lit. to draw my flesh
Listen to Ecclesiastes 2:3, Ecclesiastes 2:12, Ecclesiastes 7:23, Ecclesiastes 7:25, 1 Thessalonians 5:21
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Ecclesiastes 2:3
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3 I tried cheering myself with wine,(A) and embracing folly(B)—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.

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Ecclesiastes 2:12
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The End of the Wise and the Fool

12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom (A)and madness and folly;
For what can the man do who succeeds the king?—
Only what he has already (B)done.

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Ecclesiastes 2:12
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Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless

12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
    and also madness and folly.(A)
What more can the king’s successor do
    than what has already been done?(B)

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Ecclesiastes 7:23
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23 All this I have [a]proved by wisdom.
(A)I said, “I will be wise”;
But it was far from me.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 7:23 tested
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Ecclesiastes 7:23
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23 All this I tested by wisdom and I said,

“I am determined to be wise”(A)—
    but this was beyond me.

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Ecclesiastes 7:25
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25 (A)I applied my heart to know,
To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things,
To know the wickedness of folly,
Even of foolishness and madness.

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Ecclesiastes 7:25
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25 So I turned my mind to understand,
    to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things(A)
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
    and the madness of folly.(B)

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1 Thessalonians 5:21
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21 (A)Test all things; (B)hold fast what is good.

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1 Thessalonians 5:21
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21 but test them all;(A) hold on to what is good,(B)

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