Ecclesiastes 11:1 - Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ CAST YOUR bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

Common English Bible

¹ Send your bread out on the water because, in the course of time, you may find it again.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Cast your bread over running waters. For, after a long time, you shall find it again.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again.

English Standard Version 2016

¹ Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 17:29

Honey, curds, sheep, and cheese of cows for David and the people with him to eat; for they said, The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) shall have a sure reward [permanent and satisfying]. [Hos. 10:12; Gal. 6:8, 9; James 3:18.]

Proverbs 19:17

He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and that which he has given He will repay to him. [Prov. 28:27; Eccl. 11:1; Matt. 10:42; 25:40; II Cor. 9:6-8; Heb. 6:10.]

Proverbs 22:9

He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor. [II Cor. 9:6-10.]

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening withhold not your hands, for you know not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time to get and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away,

Isaiah 32:20

Happy and fortunate are you who cast your seed upon all waters [when the river overflows its banks; for the seed will sink into the mud and when the waters subside, the plant will spring up; you will find it after many days and reap an abundant harvest], you who safely send forth the ox and the donkey [to range freely].

Isaiah 32:8

But the noble, openhearted, and liberal man devises noble things; and he stands for what is noble, openhearted, and generous.

Leviticus 19:25

But in the fifth year you may eat of the fruit [of the trees], that their produce may enrich you; I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 10:13

Then if indeed that house is deserving, let come upon it your peace [that is, freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin]. But if it is not deserving, let your peace return to you.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives to one of these little ones [in rank or influence] even a cup of cold water because he is My disciple, surely I declare to you, he shall not lose his reward.

Matthew 25:17

And likewise he who had received the two talents–he also gained two talents more.

Matthew 25:40

And the King will reply to them, Truly I tell you, in so far as you did it for one of the least [in the estimation of men] of these My brethren, you did it for Me. [Prov. 19:17.]

Luke 14:14

Then you will be blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied), because they have no way of repaying you, and you will be recompensed at the resurrection of the just (upright).

2 Corinthians 9:6

[Remember] this: he who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to someone] will also reap generously and with blessings.

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unrighteous to forget or overlook your labor and the love which you have shown for His name's sake in ministering to the needs of the saints (His own consecrated people), as you still do.