Ecclesiastes 3:12 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹² 9 Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to get and do good as long as they live;

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

Common English Bible

¹² I know that there’s nothing better for them but to enjoy themselves and do what’s good while they live.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And I realize that there is nothing better than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.

Ecclesiastes 3:12 Cross References

Psalm 37:3

0 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be : and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden fillet shrink back, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern,

Ecclesiastes 2:24

A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

0 And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Considering I found also another vanity under the sun:

Ecclesiastes 8:15

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 64:5

THEY have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.

Luke 11:41

9 For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute.

Acts 20:35

And the days being expired, departing we went forward, they all bringing us on our way, with their wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and we prayed.

Deuteronomy 12:18

3 Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:

Deuteronomy 12:7

2 There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and maid- servants, and the Levite that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and possession among you.

Deuteronomy 26:11

6 This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these commandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

Deuteronomy 28:63

8 The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

1 Timothy 6:18

For which cause I admonish thee, that thou stir up the grace of God which is in thee, by the imposition of my hands.