Ecclesiastes 12:1

Modern English Version

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come and the years draw near when you say, “I have no pleasure in these days and years”;

Cross References

Lamentations 3:27

It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Even if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Luke 18:16

But Jesus called them to Him and said, “Permit the little children to come to Me, and do not hinder them. For to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Psalm 34:11

Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

2 Timothy 3:15

and that since childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 90:10

The years of our life are seventy, or even, by reason of strength, eighty; yet their span is but toil and sorrow; they soon pass away, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Remove anxiety from your heart, and put away distress from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.

2 Samuel 19:35

I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant from what is harmful? Can your servant taste what I eat and what I drink? Can I still hear the voices of men and women who sing? Why, then, should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

1 Samuel 2:26

Now the boy Samuel was growing both in stature and favor with the Lord and also with men.

Genesis 39:2

The Lord was with Joseph, so that he became a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.

Luke 1:15

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord sees not as men see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Genesis 39:23

The keeper of the prison did not concern himself with anything that was under Joseph’s charge because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Daniel 1:17

As for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in every branch of learning and wisdom. And Daniel had understanding in all kinds of visions and dreams.

Isaiah 26:8

In the way of Your judgments, O  Lord, we have waited for You eagerly; the desire of our souls is Your name, even Your memory.

1 Samuel 2:18

But Samuel ministered before the Lord, as a boy, wearing a linen ephod.

1 Kings 18:12

As soon as I am gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord will carry you to a place I do not know, and so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will execute me. But I, your servant, have feared the Lord since my youth.

1 Samuel 1:28

Therefore also I have let the Lord have him. As long as he lives he will be dedicated to the Lord.” And he worshipped the Lord there.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it. Gray hairs are here and there upon him, but he does not know it.

Job 30:2

Yes, how does the strength of their hands profit me? Their vigor has perished.

1 Kings 14:13

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for he alone from the house of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But you must remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to get wealth, so that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is today.

Nehemiah 4:14

After I looked around, I stood up and said to the nobles, the rulers, and the rest of the people, “Stop being terrified because of them! Remember instead that the Lord is great and awesome. So fight for each other —and for your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

Psalm 63:6

When I remember You upon my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches,

Psalm 119:55

I remember Your name in the night, O  Lord, and keep Your law.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a portion to seven, or even eight, investments, for you do not know what calamity might occur on earth.

2 Samuel 19:36

Your servant is merely crossing over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with this reward?