Ecclesiastes 11:1

English Standard Version 2016

Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

2 Corinthians 9:6

The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Isaiah 32:20

Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.

Luke 14:14

and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

Isaiah 32:8

But he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands.

Matthew 25:40

And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Proverbs 22:9

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

Matthew 10:13

And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

2 Samuel 17:29

honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Leviticus 19:25

But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the Lord your God.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Matthew 25:17

So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.