Ecclesiastes 7:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ It is good that you should take hold of the one without letting go of the other, for the one who fears God shall succeed with both.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ It is good that you should take hold of this and from that withdraw not your hand; for he who [reverently] fears and worships God will come forth from them all.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth from them all.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ It’s good that you take hold of one of these without letting go of the other because the one who fears God will go forth with both.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Do not act with great impiety, and do not choose to be foolish, lest you die before your time.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time.

Ecclesiastes 7:18 Cross References

Proverbs 12:21

No harm happens to the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

Proverbs 8:20

I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,

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.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for that is the whole duty of everyone.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it; God has done this so that all should stand in awe before him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

With many dreams come vanities and a multitude of words, but fear God.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though sinners do evil a hundred times and prolong their lives, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they stand in fear before him,

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

Jeremiah 32:40

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me.

Malachi 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Luke 1:50

indeed, his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.

Luke 11:42

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds and neglect justice and the love of God; it is these you ought to have practiced, without neglecting the others.