Ecclesiastes 1:3

New King James Version

What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit has the worker from that in which he labors?

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a severe evil— Just exactly as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.

John 6:27

Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

Matthew 16:26

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain?

Ecclesiastes 9:13

This wisdom I have also seen under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished; Nevermore will they have a share In anything done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: that one thing happens to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And profitable to those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Here is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his heritage.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yet, better than both is he who has never existed, Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Habakkuk 2:18

“What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols?

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun:

1 Corinthians 16:16

that you also submit to such, and to everyone who works and labors with us.

Ecclesiastes 2:18

Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.