Ecclesiastes 11:1 - New Revised Standard Version

¹ Send out your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will get it back.

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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 the herd, for David and the people with him to eat; for they said, “The troops are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked earn no real gain, but those who sow righteousness get a true reward.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and will be repaid in full.

Proverbs 22:9

Those who are generous are blessed, for they share their bread with the poor.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

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

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

Isaiah 32:20

Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, who let the ox and the donkey range freely.

Isaiah 32:8

But those who are noble plan noble things, and by noble things they stand.

Leviticus 19:25

But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their yield may be increased for 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, none of these will lose their reward.”

Matthew 25:17

In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents.

Matthew 25:40

And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to 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 one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust; he will not overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.