Cross references

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.

Ecclesiastes 3:10 BSB

Ecclesiastes 3:10 has 5 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 1:13–14 (5 votes) and Genesis 3:19 (4 votes). 4 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Genesis 3 to 2 Thessalonians 3.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 3:10 point to?

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  1. And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a miserable task God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them! 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.

  2. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

  3. To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  4. Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

  5. nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

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