Ecclesiastes 1:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

What does a person gain for all his efforts that he labours at under the sun?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What does the worker gain from his struggles?

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain  who struggles for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what does a person get with all his work and all his efforts  that he labours at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

When I considered all that I had accomplished  and what I had laboured to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind.  , There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

John 6:27

Don’t work for the food that perishes   but for the food that lasts for eternal life,   which the Son of Man   will give you, because God the Father   has set his seal of approval on him.’

Matthew 16:26

For what will it benefit someone if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will anyone give in exchange for his life?

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend silver on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool?  Yet he will take over all my work that I laboured at skilfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the  Lord of Armies that the peoples labour only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

Ecclesiastes 9:13

I have observed that this also is wisdom under the sun, and it is significant to me:

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love, their hate, and their envy have already disappeared, and there is no longer a portion for them in all that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live;  after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance and an advantage to those who see the sun,

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for anyone in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow?  Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Here is what I have seen to be good:  It is appropriate to eat, drink, and experience good in all the labour one does under the sun during the few days of his life God has given him, because that is his reward.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than either of them is the one who has not yet existed,  who has not seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

Habakkuk 2:18

What use is a carved idol after its craftsman carves it? It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies. For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it and makes worthless idols that cannot speak.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Again, I saw futility under the sun:

1 Corinthians 16:16

also to submit to such people, and to everyone who works and labours with them.

Ecclesiastes 2:18

I hated all my work that I laboured at under the sun  because I must leave it to the one who comes after me.