Ecclesiastes 11:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.

2 Timothy 2:22

Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun, and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah

Job 20:11

Their bodies, once full of youth, will lie down in the dust with them.

Job 13:26

For you write bitter things against me and make me reap the iniquities of my youth.

Psalm 25:7

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far away.

Job 11:12

But the stupid will get understanding when a wild ass is born human.

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.