Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'mirth' occurs 15 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'mirth' in the standard works and contain 13.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Eccl. 2:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

 2:1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

 2:2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 15 0 15
Gen. 1 0 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Ps. 1 0 1
Prov. 1 0 1
Eccl. 4 0 4
Isa. 2 0 2
Jer. 3 0 3
Ezek. 1 0 1
Hosea 1 0 1
NT 0 0 0
BM 0 0 0
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 15 0 15

Eccl. 2:1
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

Eccl. 2:2
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

Eccl. 7:4
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Eccl. 8:15
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.