Ecclesiastes 11:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹ Send your bread on the surface of the water, for after many days you may find it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ CAST YOUR bread upon the waters, for you will 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.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 17:29

honey, curds, sheep, goats, and cheese  from the herd for David and the people with him to eat. They had reasoned, ‘The people must be hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.’

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked person earns an empty wage, but the one who sows righteousness, a true reward.

Proverbs 19:17

Kindness to the poor is a loan to the  Lord, and he will give a reward to the lender.  ,

Proverbs 22:9

A generous person  will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hand rest, because you don’t know which will succeed, whether one or the other, or if both of them will be equally good.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to search and a time to count as lost; a time to keep and a time to throw away;

Isaiah 32:20

You will be happy as you sow seed beside abundant water, and as you let oxen and donkeys range freely.

Isaiah 32:8

But a noble person plans noble things; he stands up for noble causes.

Leviticus 19:25

But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you;  I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 10:13

and if the household is worthy, let your peace be on it; but if it is unworthy, let your peace return to you.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives   even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple,   , truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.’

Matthew 25:17

In the same way the man with two earned two more.

Matthew 25:40

‘And the King will answer them, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

Luke 14:14

And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid   at the resurrection of the righteous.’

2 Corinthians 9:6

The point is this:  The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love  you demonstrated for his name by serving the saints #– #and by continuing to serve them.