Ecclesiastes 11:10

Tree of Life Version

So banish anxiety from your heart and cast off distress from your body, for youth and prime of life are fleeting.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, since we have these promises, loved ones, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

2 Timothy 2:22

Now flee from youthful desires; instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and shalom, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: before the days of misery come, and years draw near when you will say: “I have no pleasure in them”—

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the deeds done under the sun; and behold, all is meaningless and chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Futile! Futile! says Kohelet. Completely meaningless! Everything is futile!

Psalm 39:5

“Let me know, Adonai, my end and what the number of my days is. Let me know how short-lived I am.

Job 20:11

His bones were full of his youthful vigor but it will lie down with him in the dust.

Job 13:26

For You write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

Psalm 25:7

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellion. According to Your mercy remember me, for the sake of Your goodness, Adonai.

Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but a rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Job 11:12

But a witless man will gain understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being?

Psalm 39:6

Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah