Ecclesiastes 11:10

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  • 2 Pet 3:11-14 : 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
  • Job 20:11 : 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
  • Ps 25:7 : 7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Eccl 12:1 : 1 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;

Similar Verses (AI)

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    7Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

    8But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

    9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

  • Eccl 12:1-2
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    1Remember 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;

    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

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

  • Eccl 9:9-10
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    9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

    10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

  • Prov 5:11
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    11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

  • Eccl 7:2-4
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    2It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

    3Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

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

  • Job 11:14-17
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    14If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

    15For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

    16Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

    17And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

  • Eccl 2:22-23
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    22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

  • Eccl 3:12
    72%

    12I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Job 20:11
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    11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

  • Prov 15:13
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    13A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15Then 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.

  • Eccl 7:17
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    17Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

  • Eccl 2:17
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    17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 8:10-11
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    10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

    11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

  • Eccl 12:8
    71%

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

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Lam 3:27
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    27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

  • Eccl 7:14
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    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This is an evil among all things that are 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 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 enquire wisely concerning this.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

  • Prov 5:18
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    18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

  • Eccl 9:7
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    7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

  • Eccl 2:26
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    26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 17:22
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    22A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

  • Job 33:25
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    25His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:

  • Jas 4:9
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    9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Job 5:27
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    27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

  • Eccl 1:17
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    17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

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    3I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

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    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

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    15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.