Ecclesiastes 12:1

New International Version

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—

Cross References

Lamentations 3:27

It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all. But let them remember the days of darkness, for there will be many. Everything to come is meaningless.

Proverbs 22:6

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Luke 18:16

But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Psalm 34:11

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

2 Timothy 3:15

and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 90:10

Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless.

Proverbs 8:17

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

2 Samuel 19:35

I am now eighty years old. Can I tell the difference between what is enjoyable and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats and drinks? Can I still hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

1 Samuel 2:26

And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the Lord and with people.

Genesis 39:2

The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.

Luke 1:15

for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Genesis 39:23

The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Daniel 1:17

To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.

Isaiah 26:8

Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.

1 Samuel 2:18

But Samuel was ministering before the Lord—a boy wearing a linen ephod.

1 Kings 18:12

I don’t know where the Spirit of the Lord may carry you when I leave you. If I go and tell Ahab and he doesn’t find you, he will kill me. Yet I your servant have worshiped the Lord since my youth.

1 Samuel 1:28

So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.

Job 30:2

Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?

1 Kings 14:13

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the Lord, the God of Israel, has found anything good.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

Nehemiah 4:14

After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”

Psalm 63:6

On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.

Psalm 119:55

In the night, Lord, I remember your name, that I may keep your law.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

2 Samuel 19:36

Your servant will cross over the Jordan with the king for a short distance, but why should the king reward me in this way?