Cross references

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, while you are young,

and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.

Walk in the ways of your heart

and in the sight of your eyes,

but know that for all these things

God will bring you to judgment.

Ecclesiastes 11:9 BSB

Ecclesiastes 11:9 has 37 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 18 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 12:14 (48 votes) and 1 John 2:15–16 (37 votes). 53 other verses point back to it. It links with 34 other books, from Genesis 3 to Revelation 20.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 11:9 point to?

The 20 strongest of 37, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

  2. Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

  3. 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,”

  4. I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”

  5. It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

  6. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

  7. Job 31:711 votes

    If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

  8. Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

  9. Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.

  10. in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 11:9?

The 10 strongest of 53.