Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
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Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
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Genesis 2:15
Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Ecclesiastes 1:11
There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
Romans 10:15
And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
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Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
Job 5:7
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 24:6
Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Romans 8:21
that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
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1 Samuel 9:2
He had a son whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a more handsome person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people.
1 Samuel 17:8
He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
1 Samuel 17:49
David put his hand in his bag, took a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
1 Samuel 17:50
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword in David’s hand.
1 Samuel 17:51
Then David ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
1 Samuel 31:4
Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it.
1 Samuel 31:5
When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
2 Samuel 14:25
Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.
2 Samuel 16:23
The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel was like this both with David and with Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
2 Samuel 18:14
Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak.
2 Samuel 18:17
They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.
Psalms 119:96
I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
Matthew 5:18
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
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Job 7:2
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
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Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
Ecclesiastes 2:21
For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
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.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
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Proverbs 11:29
He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Isaiah 26:18
We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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Job 1:21
He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
Proverbs 16:26
The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him on.
Proverbs 23:4
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:11
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:8
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
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Ecclesiastes 4:15
I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
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Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.
Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
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Isaiah 57:10
You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint.
Habakkuk 2:18
“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
Mark 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
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Matthew 20:12
saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
1 Corinthians 15:8
and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.
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Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Romans 3:1
Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
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Hebrews 2:13
Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”
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