Ecclesiastes 12:1

New Century Version

Remember your Creator while you are young, before the days of trouble come and the years when you say, “I find no pleasure in them.”

Cross References

Genesis 39:2

The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man. He lived in the house of his master, Potiphar the Egyptian.

Genesis 39:23

The warden paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s care because the Lord was with Joseph and made him successful in everything he did.

2 Samuel 19:35

I am eighty years old! I am too old to taste what I eat or drink. I am too old to hear the voices of men and women singers. Why should you be bothered with me?

2 Samuel 19:36

I am not worthy of a reward from you, but I will cross the Jordan River with you.

1 Kings 14:13

and all Israel will be sad for him and bury him. He is the only one of Jeroboam’s family who will be buried, because he is the only one in the king’s family who pleased the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 18:12

The Spirit of the Lord may carry you to some other place after I leave. If I go tell King Ahab you are here, and he comes and doesn’t find you, he will kill me! I have followed the Lord since I was a boy.

Nehemiah 4:14

Then I looked around and stood up and said to the important men, the leaders, and the rest of the people: “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and powerful. Fight for your brothers, your sons and daughters, your wives, and your homes.”

Job 30:2

What use did I have for their strength since they had lost their strength to work?

Psalm 119:55

Lord, I remember you at night, and I will obey your teachings.

Psalm 34:11

Children, come and listen to me. I will teach you to worship the Lord.

Psalm 63:6

I remember you while I’m lying in bed; I think about you through the night.

Psalm 90:10

Our lifetime is seventy years or, if we are strong, eighty years. But the years are full of hard work and pain. They pass quickly, and then we are gone.

Proverbs 22:6

Train children to live the right way, and when they are old, they will not stray from it.

Proverbs 8:17

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

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Don’t worry, and forget the troubles of your body, because youth and childhood are useless.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Invest what you have in several different businesses, because you don’t know what disasters might happen.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

People ought to enjoy every day of their lives, no matter how long they live. But they should also remember this: You will be dead a long time. Everything that happens then is useless.

Isaiah 26:8

But, Lord, we are waiting for your way of justice. Our souls want to remember you and your name.

Lamentations 3:27

It is good for someone to work hard while he is young.

Daniel 1:17

God gave these four young men wisdom and the ability to learn many things that people had written and studied. Daniel could also understand visions and dreams.

Hosea 7:9

Foreign nations have eaten up his strength, but he doesn’t know it. Israel is weak and feeble, like an old man, but he doesn’t know it.

Luke 1:15

John will be a great man for the Lord. He will never drink wine or beer, and even from birth, he will be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Luke 18:16

But Jesus called for the children, saying, “Let the little children come to me. Don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to people who are like these children.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not make your children angry, but raise them with the training and teaching of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:18

but remember the Lord your God! It is he who gives you the power to become rich, keeping the agreement he promised to your ancestors, as it is today.

2 Timothy 3:15

Since you were a child you have known the Holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise. And that wisdom leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

1 Samuel 1:28

Now I give him back to the Lord. He will belong to the Lord all his life.” And he worshiped the Lord there.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t look at how handsome Eliab is or how tall he is, because I have not chosen him. God does not see the same way people see. People look at the outside of a person, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

1 Samuel 2:18

But Samuel obeyed the Lord. As a boy he wore a linen holy vest.

1 Samuel 2:26

The boy Samuel grew physically. He pleased the Lord and the people.