Ecclesiastes 1:3

Lighthouse Bible 2006

What profit has a man from all his labor which he does under the sun?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:18

Yea, I hated all my labor which I had done under the sun: because I would leave it to the man that shall be after me.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what has man from all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:9

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

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yea, better is he than both of them, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a great evil, that in all respects as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he that has labored for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold that which I have seen: it is good and pleasant for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he does under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him: for it is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event for all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which does not satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the consuming fire, and the people shall weary themselves for utter vanity?

Habakkuk 2:18

What does the sculptured image profit, that its maker has carved it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

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?

John 6:27

Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you: for him has God the Father sealed.

1 Corinthians 16:16

That you submit yourselves to such, and to everyone that works with us, and labors.