Ecclesiastes 11:1

Cast your bread on the waters, and you will find it after many days. Generous, venturesome action, though its return is unseen, will be rewarded in time.

Cross-references · 17

• Eccl 11:6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Matt 10:42Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• 2 Cor 9:6Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Isa 32:20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
• Ps 41:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• Gal 6:8–10For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
• Luke 14:14and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
• Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
• Isa 32:8But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
• Prov 11:18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
• Deut 15:7–11If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
• Prov 11:24–25There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
• Prov 22:9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
• Matt 10:13If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.
• Matt 25:40“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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