Ecclesiastes 9:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ Let your garments be always white; let not 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

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

2 Samuel 19:24

And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.

Esther 8:15

Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in 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

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows.

Daniel 10:3

I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.

Amos 6:6

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

Matthew 6:17

But when you fast, anoint 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

(“Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed!”)

Revelation 19:14

And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, followed him on white horses.

Revelation 19:8

it was granted her 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 behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Ruth 3:3

Wash therefore 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.