Ecclesiastes 9:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Let your garments always be white; do not let oil be lacking on your head.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Let your garments be always white [with purity], and let your head not lack [the] oil [of gladness].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Let thy garments be always white; and let not thy head lack oil.

Common English Bible

⁸ Let your garments always be white; don’t run short of oil for your head.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Let your garments be white at all times, and let not oil be absent from your head.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart from thy head.

Ecclesiastes 9:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:2

Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman. He said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner; put on mourning garments, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.

2 Samuel 19:24

Mephibosheth grandson of Saul came down to meet the king; he had not taken care of his feet or trimmed his beard or washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he came back in safety.

Esther 8:15

Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king, wearing royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a mantle of fine linen and purple, while the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.

Psalm 23:5

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Daniel 10:3

I had eaten no rich food, no meat or wine had entered my mouth, and I had not anointed myself at all, for the full three weeks.

Amos 6:6

who drink wine from bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

Matthew 6:17

But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,

Luke 7:46

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

Revelation 16:15

(“See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and is clothed, not going about naked and exposed to shame.”)

Revelation 19:14

And the armies of heaven, wearing fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.

Revelation 19:8

to her it has been granted to be clothed with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

Revelation 7:9

After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.

Ruth 3:3

Now wash and anoint yourself, and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.