Cross references
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does a man gain from all his labor,
at which he toils under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:3 has 21 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 3:9 (11 votes) and Ecclesiastes 2:22 (10 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Genesis 3 to John 6.
Which verses does Ecclesiastes 1:3 point to?
The 20 strongest of 21, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ecclesiastes 3:911 votes
What does the worker gain from his toil?
- Ecclesiastes 2:2210 votes
For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 5:1610 votes
This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
- Ecclesiastes 2:118 votes
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Mark 8:36–378 votes
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Proverbs 23:4–57 votes
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself. When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
- John 6:277 votes
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
- Ecclesiastes 2:195 votes
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
- Isaiah 55:25 votes
Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
- Matthew 16:265 votes
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Ecclesiastes 8:15–173 votes
- Habakkuk 2:133 votes
- Ecclesiastes 4:32 votes
- Ecclesiastes 5:182 votes
- Ecclesiastes 6:122 votes
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 7:112 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:32 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:62 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:132 votes
- Ecclesiastes 4:71 vote
Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 1:3?
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