Ecclesiastes 2:22

King James 2000

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored under the sun?

Cross References

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

Proverbs 16:26

He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit has he that works in that in which he labors?

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with toil and grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

Matthew 16:26

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?

Matthew 6:34

Take therefore no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought of the things for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Luke 12:22

And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat; neither for the body, what you shall put on.

Luke 12:29

And seek you not what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, neither be of anxious mind.

1 Corinthians 16:16

That you submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that works with us, and labors.

Philippians 4:6

Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

1 Timothy 6:8

And having food and clothing let us be with these things content.

1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.