Ecclesiastes 1:10

American Standard Version (1901)

Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

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  • Matt 5:12 : 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.
  • Matt 23:30-32 : 30 and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
  • Luke 17:26-30 : 26 And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all: 30 after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
  • 1 Thess 2:14-16 : 14 For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews; 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men; 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
  • 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 1:8-9
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    8All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter [it] : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

    9That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

  • Eccl 1:11-15
    5 verses
    85%

    11There is no remembrance of the former [generations] ; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter [generations] that are to come, among those that shall come after.

    12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

    13And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

  • Eccl 3:14-16
    3 verses
    83%

    14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.

    15That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.

    16And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
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    76%

    10Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.

    11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

    12For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been done long ago.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.

    16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 1:1-5
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    1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

    2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

    3What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

    4One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.

    5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.

  • Eccl 7:10
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    10Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

  • Eccl 4:2-3
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    74%

    2Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

    3yea, better than them both [did I esteem] him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Job 20:4
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    4Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

  • Eccl 3:10-12
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    73%

    10I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

    11He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

    12I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

  • Eccl 3:1
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    1For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

  • Deut 4:32
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    32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

  • Eccl 6:1
    72%

    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

  • Eccl 12:8
    71%

    8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

  • Eccl 9:13
    71%

    13I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:

  • Eccl 3:22
    71%

    22Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 2:16
    71%

    16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

  • Eccl 9:3
    70%

    3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

    10So I saw the wicked buried, and they came [to the grave] ; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

  • Isa 43:18
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    18Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

  • Isa 42:9
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    9Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.

  • 2 Pet 3:4
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    4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

  • Job 8:8
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    8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:

  • Eccl 6:6
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    6yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

  • Ps 77:5
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    5I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.

  • Eccl 9:6
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    6As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.