Ecclesiastes 1:9

Good News Translation

What has happened before will happen again. What has been done before will be done again. There is nothing new in the whole world.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:10

“Look,” they say, “here is something new!” But no, it has all happened before, long before we were born.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

After all, a king can only do what previous kings have done. So I started thinking about what it meant to be wise or reckless or foolish.

Ecclesiastes 3:15

Whatever happens or can happen has already happened before. God makes the same thing happen again and again.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Everything that happens was already determined long ago, and we all know that you cannot argue with someone who is stronger than you.

Ecclesiastes 7:10

Never ask, “Oh, why were things so much better in the old days?” It's not an intelligent question.

Isaiah 43:19

Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already—you can see it now! I will make a road through the wilderness and give you streams of water there.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you hesitate, faithless people? I have created something new and different, as different as a woman protecting a man.”

2 Peter 2:1

False prophets appeared in the past among the people, and in the same way false teachers will appear among you. They will bring in destructive, untrue doctrines, and will deny the Master who redeemed them, and so they will bring upon themselves sudden destruction.

Revelation 21:1

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth disappeared, and the sea vanished.

Revelation 21:5

Then the one who sits on the throne said, “And now I make all things new!” He also said to me, “Write this, because these words are true and can be trusted.”