Ecclesiastes 1:9

New Century Version

All things continue the way they have been since the beginning. What has happened will happen again; there is nothing new here on earth.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:10

Someone might say, “Look, this is new,” but really it has always been here. It was here before we were.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

Then I began to think again about being wise, and also about being foolish and doing crazy things. But after all, what more can anyone do? He can’t do more than what the other king has already done.

Ecclesiastes 3:15

What happens now has happened in the past, and what will happen in the future has happened before. God makes the same things happen again and again.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever happens was planned long ago. Everyone knows what people are like. No one can argue with God, who is stronger than anyone.

Ecclesiastes 7:10

Don’t ask, “Why was life better in the ‘good old days’?” It is not wise to ask such questions.

Isaiah 43:19

Look at the new thing I am going to do. It is already happening. Don’t you see it? I will make a road in the desert and rivers in the dry land.

Jeremiah 31:22

You are an unfaithful daughter. How long will you wander before you come home? The Lord has made something new happen in the land: A woman will go seeking a man.”

2 Peter 2:1

There used to be false prophets among God’s people, just as you will have some false teachers in your group. They will secretly teach things that are wrong—teachings that will cause people to be lost. They will even refuse to accept the Master, Jesus, who bought their freedom. So they will bring quick ruin on themselves.

Revelation 21:1

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and there was no sea anymore.

Revelation 21:5

The One who was sitting on the throne said, “Look! I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this, because these words are true and can be trusted.”