Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
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- 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
- 2 Pet 3:11-14 : 11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. 14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
- Job 13:26 : 26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
- Job 20:11 : 11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Ps 25:7 : 7 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness' sake, Yahweh.
- Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
- Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away. 11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
- Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Eccl 1:2 : 2 "Vanity of vanities," says 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 a chasing after wind.
- Eccl 12:1 : 1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"
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- Eccl 11:7-93 verses87%
7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.
8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
- Eccl 12:1-22 verses80%
1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"
2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
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1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.
- Eccl 9:9-102 verses73%
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
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11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
- Eccl 7:2-43 verses73%
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 should take this to heart.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
- Job 11:14-174 verses72%
14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
15 Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
16 for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.
17 Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.
- Eccl 2:22-232 verses72%
22 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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13 Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.
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12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
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11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
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9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
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20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.
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13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
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15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
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17 Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
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17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Eccl 8:10-112 verses71%
10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
11 Because 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.
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8 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"
- Eccl 2:10-112 verses71%
10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, 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, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
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3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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 Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.
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20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
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18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
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7 Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
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26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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22 A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth.
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9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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22 Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?
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27 Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."
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17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
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3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
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11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
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15 Then I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.