Ecclesiastes 4:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good [more satisfying] reward for their labor;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Common English Bible

⁹ Two are better than one because they have a good return for their hard work.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Therefore, it is better for two to be together, than for one to be alone. For they have the advantage of their companionship.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for they have the advantage of their society:

Ecclesiastes 4:9 Cross References

Genesis 2:18

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

1 Chronicles 19:12

And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.

Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Ecclesiastes 4:10

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Haggai 1:14

And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

Numbers 11:14

I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

Mark 6:7

And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

John 4:36

He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Acts 13:2

And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

2 John 1:8

Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

Ruth 2:12

The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to take refuge.