Verse 27

O howe good is it for a man to take the yoke vpon him from his youth vp?

Referenced Verses

• Eccl 12:1 : 1 Remember thy maker the sooner in thy youth, or euer the dayes of aduersitie come, and or the yeres drawe nye when thou shalt say, I haue not pleasure in them:
• Matt 11:29-30 : 29 Take my yoke vpon you and learne of me, for I am meeke & lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules. 30 For my yoke is easie, and my burthen is lyght.
• Heb 12:5-9 : 5 And ye haue forgotten the exhortatio, which speaketh vnto you as vnto chyldren: My sonne despise not thou the chastenyng of the Lorde, neither faynt when thou art rebuked of hym: 6 For whom the Lord loueth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth euery sonne that he receaueth. 7 If ye endure chastenyng, God offereth him selfe as vnto sonnes: For what sonne is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But yf ye be without chastisment, wherof all are partakers, then are ye bastardes, and not sonnes. 9 Furthermore, we haue had fathers of our fleshe, which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: Shall we not then much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites, and lyue? 10 For they veryly, for a fewe dayes, chastened vs after their owne pleasure: but he, for our profite, that we myght be partakers of his holynesse. 11 No chashsyng for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but greeuous: Neuerthelesse, afterwarde it bryngeth the quiet fruite of ryghteousnesse, vnto the which are exercised therby. 12 Strayghten vp therfore the handes which were let downe, and the weake knees:
• Ps 90:12 : 12 Make vs to knowe so our dayes, that we number them: and we wyll frame a heart vnto wisdome.
• Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the man O Lorde, whom thou wylt chasten: and whom thou wylt instruct in thy lawe.
• Ps 119:71 : 71 It is good for me that I am brought into miserie: by that meanes I shall learne thy statutes.