Ecclesiastes 11:1 - Modern English Version

¹ Send out your grain on the waters by ship, for after many days you will find financial return.

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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.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 17:29

honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the livestock for David and the people who were with him to eat and use. For they said, “The people are hungry, exhausted, and thirsting in the wilderness.”

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.

Proverbs 19:17

He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will repay what he has given.

Proverbs 22:9

He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hands rest; for you do not know which activity will find success, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek out, and a time to give up; a time to guard, and a time to cast away;

Isaiah 32:20

How blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out freely the ox and the donkey.

Isaiah 32:8

But the noble devises noble things, and by noble things he stands.

Leviticus 19:25

And in the fifth year you shall eat of the fruit that it may yield an increase to you: I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 10:13

If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, truly I tell you, he shall in no way lose his reward.”

Matthew 25:17

So also, he who had received two gained another two.

Matthew 25:40

“The King will answer, ‘Truly I say to you, as you have done it for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you have done it for Me.’

Luke 14:14

and you will be blessed, for they cannot repay you. You shall be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

2 Corinthians 9:6

But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Hebrews 6:10

for God is not unjust so as to forget your work and labor of love that you have shown for His name, in that you have ministered to the saints and continue ministering.