Ecclesiastes 12:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,””
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“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 12:1 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 39:2And the LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.
- Genesis 39:8But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.
- Genesis 39:23The warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph’s care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.
- Deuteronomy 8:18But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
- 1 Samuel 1:28I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.
- 1 Samuel 2:18Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.
- 1 Samuel 2:26And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.
- 1 Samuel 3:19And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.
- 1 Samuel 16:7But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
- 1 Samuel 16:12So Jesse sent for his youngest son and brought him in. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him, for he is the one.”
- 1 Samuel 17:36Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
- 2 Samuel 19:35I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
- 2 Samuel 19:36Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
- 1 Kings 3:6Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
- 1 Kings 14:13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.
- 1 Kings 18:12I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.
- 2 Chronicles 34:2And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
- Job 30:2What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
- Psalms 22:9Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
- Psalms 34:11Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
- Psalms 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Psalms 90:10The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Proverbs 8:17I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
- Proverbs 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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