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Ecclesiastes 11:10

So banish sorrow from your heart,

and cast off pain from your body,

for youth and vigor are fleeting.

Ecclesiastes 11:10 BSB
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Ecclesiastes 11:10 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Corinthians 7:1 (13 votes) and 2 Timothy 2:22 (10 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Judges 20 to 2 Peter 3.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 11:10 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 2 Corinthians 7:113 votes

    Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

  2. 2 Timothy 2:2210 votes

    Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

  3. Ecclesiastes 1:27 votes

    “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

  4. Ecclesiastes 1:146 votes

    I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

  5. Ecclesiastes 12:16 votes

    Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

  6. Job 20:115 votes

    The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  7. Psalm 39:55 votes

    You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

  8. Psalm 90:7–115 votes

    For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. …

  9. 2 Peter 3:11–145 votes

    Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat. …

  10. Job 13:264 votes

    For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

  11. Psalm 25:73 votes
  12. Proverbs 22:152 votes

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 11:10?

The 10 strongest of 15.