Ecclesiastes 11:1

New English Translation

Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:29

honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. For they said, “The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert.”

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

Proverbs 19:17

The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord, and the Lord will repay him for his good deed.

Proverbs 22:9

A generous person will be blessed, for he gives some of his food to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed – whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time to search, and a time to give something up as lost; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

Isaiah 32:20

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

Isaiah 32:8

An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.

Leviticus 19:25

Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 10:13

And if the house is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward.”

Matthew 25:17

In the same way, the one who had two gained two more.

Matthew 25:40

And the king will answer them, ‘I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.’

Luke 14:14

Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

2 Corinthians 9:6

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.