Ecclesiastes 12:1

Tree of Life Version

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”—

Cross References

Genesis 39:2

But Adonai was with Joseph. So he became a successful man in the house of his master, the Egyptian.

Genesis 39:23

The commander of the prison did not concern himself with anything at all under his care, because Adonai was with him, and Adonai made whatever he did successful.

2 Samuel 19:35

But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years are left of my life that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

2 Samuel 19:36

I am now 80 years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I listen any more to the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

1 Kings 14:13

All Israel will lament over him and bury him, for it is only him of Jeroboam’s house who will be buried, because in him alone, of all Jeroboam’s house, something good was found toward Adonai, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 18:12

But as soon as I leave you, the Ruach Adonai may carry you off where I wouldn’t know. Then, when I come and tell Ahab and he can’t find you, he’ll kill me! Now I, your servant, have feared Adonai since my youth.

Nehemiah 4:14

Wherever you hear the sound of the shofar, join us there. Our God will fight for us!”

Job 30:2

Moreover, what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor has gone from them.

Psalm 119:55

In the night I remember Your Name, Adonai, and keep watching over Your Torah.

Psalm 34:11

Young lions may lack, and go hungry, but those who seek Adonai want for no good thing.

Psalm 63:6

My soul is satisfied as with fat and oil, so my mouth praises You with joyful lips.

Psalm 90:10

The span of our years is seventy —or with strength, eighty— yet at best they are trouble and sorrow. For they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me. Those who earnestly seek me find me.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

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

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give portions to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what disaster may happen upon the earth.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness— for there will be many. Everything to come is obscure.

Isaiah 26:8

Yes, in the way of Your judgments, Adonai, we have waited for You. Your Name and Your remembrance is the desire of our soul.

Lamentations 3:27

It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.

Daniel 1:17

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and proficiency in every kind of wisdom and literature, and Daniel could understand all sorts of visions and dreams.

Hosea 7:9

Strangers devoured his strength— yet he does not know it. Gray hairs have spread on him— and he does not know it.

Luke 1:15

He will be great before Adonai; and he should not drink wine and intoxicating beverage, but he will be filled with the Ruach ha-Kodesh just out of his mother’s womb.

Luke 18:16

But Yeshua called for them, saying, “Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:18

Rather you are to remember Adonai your God, for it is He who gives you power to make wealth, in order to establish His covenant that He swore to your fathers—as it is this day.

2 Timothy 3:15

and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise, leading to salvation through trusting in Messiah Yeshua.

1 Samuel 1:28

So I in turn dedicate him to Adonai—as long as he lives he is dedicated to Adonai.” Then he bowed in worship there before Adonai.

1 Samuel 16:7

But Adonai said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or his stature, because I have already refused him. For He does not see a man as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but Adonai looks into the heart.”

1 Samuel 2:18

But Samuel was ministering before Adonai, as a boy girded with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2:26

Meanwhile, the child Samuel kept growing and increasing in favor both with Adonai and also with men.