Ecclesiastes 11:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Send out your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will get it back.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ CAST YOUR bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

Common English Bible

¹ Send your bread out on the water because, in the course of time, you may find it again.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Cast your bread over running waters. For, after a long time, you shall find it again.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hands be idle, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and will be repaid in full.

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust; he will not overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

Matthew 10:42

and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

2 Corinthians 9:6

The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Isaiah 32:20

Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, who let the ox and the donkey range freely.

Luke 14:14

And you will be blessed because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Isaiah 32:8

But those who are noble plan noble things, and by noble things they stand.

Matthew 25:40

And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.’

Proverbs 22:9

Those who are generous are blessed, for they share their bread with the poor.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked earn no real gain, but those who sow righteousness get a true reward.

Matthew 10:13

If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

2 Samuel 17:29

honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, “The troops are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Leviticus 19:25

But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their yield may be increased for you: I am the Lord your God.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away;

Matthew 25:17

In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents.