Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
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General references
Bible References
Profit
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he that he labored for the wind?
Isaiah 55:2
Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Matthew 16:26
For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mark 8:36
For what will it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
John 6:27
Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for God the Father put a seal on this man.
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, for this is his p
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yea, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 8:15
Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
General references
Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?