Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.
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- 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;
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7 ¶ Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun:
8 But 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.
9 Rejoice, 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 12:1-22 verses80%
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;
2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
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9 Live 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.
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11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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2 [It 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.
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14 If iniquity [be] in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
16 Because thou shalt forget [thy] misery, [and] remember [it] as waters [that] pass away:
17 And [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
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22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
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13 ¶ Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness.
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12 I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
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11 ¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?
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9 Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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11 His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
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20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.
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13 ¶ A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
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15 Then 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.
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17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
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17 ¶ Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
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10 And 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.
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8 ¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.
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10 And 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.
11 Then 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.
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27 [It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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14 In 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.
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3 This [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.
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10 Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
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20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
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18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
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26 For [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.
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22 ¶ A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
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25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:
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9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
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22 Wherefore 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?
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27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good.
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17 And 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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3 I 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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11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
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15 Then 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.