Ecclesiastes 11:1 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹ Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a 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.

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 and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows’ milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, ‘The people have become exhausted and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.’

Proverbs 11:18

A wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.

Proverbs 22:9

The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,

Isaiah 32:20

how blessed you will be, sowing your seed by every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.

Isaiah 32:8

But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand.

Leviticus 19:25

But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 10:13

If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you.

Matthew 10:42

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.’

Matthew 25:17

So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more.

Matthew 25:40

‘The King will reply, “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. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.’

2 Corinthians 9:6

Remember this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

Hebrews 6:10

God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.