Ecclesiastes 12:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

Cross References

Genesis 39:2

And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian.

Genesis 39:23

And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go well.

2 Samuel 19:35

I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?

2 Samuel 19:36

Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?

1 Kings 14:13

And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.

1 Kings 18:12

And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.

Nehemiah 4:14

And after looking, I got up and said to the great ones and to the chiefs and to the rest of the people, Have no fear of them: keep in mind the Lord who is great and greatly to be feared, and take up arms for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses.

Job 30:2

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

Psalm 119:55

I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.

Psalm 34:11

Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

Psalm 63:6

When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.

Psalm 90:10

The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

Proverbs 22:6

If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

Proverbs 8:17

Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

Isaiah 26:8

We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.

Lamentations 3:27

It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

Daniel 1:17

Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.

Hosea 7:9

Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

Luke 1:15

For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

Luke 18:16

But Jesus sent for them, saying, Let the children come to me, and do not keep them away, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Ephesians 6:4

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.

2 Timothy 3:15

And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

1 Samuel 1:28

So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.

1 Samuel 2:18

But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2:26

And the young Samuel, becoming older, had the approval of the Lord and of men.