Ecclesiastes 7:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

There shall no mischief happen to the righteous: But the wicked shall be filled with evil.

Proverbs 8:20

I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of judgement:

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

This is the end of the matter; all hath been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For thus it cometh to pass through the multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear thou God.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and prolong his days, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Jeremiah 32:40

and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

Malachi 4:2

But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.

Luke 1:50

And his mercy is unto generations and generations On them that fear him.

Luke 11:42

But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over judgement and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.