Ecclesiastes 1:10

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was 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 which were before you.›
  • Matt 23:30-32 : 30 ‹And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.› 31 ‹Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.› 32 ‹Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.›
  • Luke 17:26-30 : 26 ‹And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.› 27 ‹They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.› 28 ‹Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;› 29 ‹But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed› [them] ‹all.› 30 ‹Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.›
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.
  • 1 Thess 2:14-16 : 14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they [have] of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
  • 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

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

    9¶ The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.

  • Eccl 1:11-15
    5 verses
    85%

    11[There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after.

    12¶ I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

    13And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

    15[That 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 any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.

    15That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

    16¶ And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, [that] wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, [that] iniquity [was] there.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

    11¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

    12For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] 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 labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

    12¶ And 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 already done.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

    16[There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 1:1-5
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    1¶ The 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 a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

    4¶ [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

    5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

  • Eccl 7:10
    74%

    10Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

  • Eccl 4:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

    3Yea, better [is he] than both they, which 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, since man was placed upon earth,

  • Eccl 3:10-12
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    10I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

    11¶ He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

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

  • Eccl 3:1
    72%

    1¶ To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the 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 [ask] from the one side 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
    72%

    17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yea further; though a wise [man] think to know [it], yet shall he not be able to find [it].

  • Eccl 6:1
    72%

    1¶ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men:

  • Eccl 9:1
    71%

    1¶ For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them.

  • Eccl 12:8
    71%

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

  • Eccl 9:13
    71%

    13¶ This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it [seemed] great unto me:

  • Eccl 3:22
    71%

    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?

  • Eccl 2:16
    71%

    16For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

  • Eccl 9:3
    70%

    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 8:9-10
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    70%

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

    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.

  • 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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    7¶ Then I returned, and I 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 since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of the creation.

  • Eccl 11:8
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    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.

  • Job 8:8
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    8¶ For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

  • Eccl 6:6
    69%

    6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen 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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    6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun.