Ecclesiastes 12
Treated in 23 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 12:1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, while the days of trouble have not yet come and the years have not drawn near when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them," 5
- 12:5 when people are afraid of heights and of dangers on the road, when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper-berry no longer stirs desire, because everyone goes to their eternal home, and mourners go about in the streets, 4
- 12:7 and the dust goes back to the earth it came from, and the spirit returns to God, who gave it. 4
- 12:6 before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is broken, before the jar is shattered at the spring and the wheel broken at the well, 3
- 12:12 Beyond these, my son, take warning: the making of many books never ends, and much study wears out the body. 3
- 12:14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, including everything hidden, whether it is good or evil. 2
- 12:8 Breath upon breath, says the Teacher. Everything is a breath. 1
- 12:13 Here is the end of the matter, now that all has been heard: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole of being human. 1
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Where it is preached
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
The Eighth Stage cites Eccles. 12:6
…a true messenger, saying, “I have broken thy golden bowl, and loosed thy silver cord.” Eccles. 12:6. After this, Mr. Ready-to-halt called for his fellow-pilgrims, and told them, saying, I…
- Tell Me the Story – Book 9: Songs and Wise Words ·
Remember Your Creator cites Ecclesiastes 12:1
“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth.” — Ecclesiastes 12:1 The wise teacher who wrote Ecclesiastes thought very hard about what really matters in…
- The Life of Trust ·
The Field Widening cites Ecclesiastes xii. 1
…thanksgiving, I addressed the children of our day schools and the orphans, about 350, on Ecclesiastes xii. 1. In addition to the items mentioned above, donations were received during the year, of…
- How to Bring Men to Christ ·
Dealing with Those Who Wish to Put Off a Decision Until Some Other Time cites Ecc. xii. 1
…or Heb. iii. 15. 4. Those who say “I am too young,” or “I want to wait until I am older.” Ecc. xii. 1, is an all–sufficient answer to such. Matt. xix. 14, and xviii. 3, are also good passages…
- Portraits of Courage – Elisabeth Elliot ·
Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites Ecclesiastes 12:1
…and tested, and her sense of a call to missionary service grew. Scriptures to revisit Ecclesiastes 12:1; 1 Samuel 3:10; Isaiah 6:8. Reflection 1. When did you first sense that God might have…
- The Big Story ·
Songs and Wisdom cites Ecclesiastes 12:1
…“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come” (Ecclesiastes 12:1). And its conclusion: “Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty…
- Practical Religion ·
Prayer cites Eccles. xii. 5
…to keep them to themselves they will find one day that the very grasshopper is a burden. (Eccles. xii. 5.) There is a friend ever waiting to help us, if we will only unbosom to Him our sorrow,—a…
- Practical Religion ·
Sickness cites Eccles. xii. 5
…turn the strongest into a little child, and make him feel "the grasshopper a burden." (Eccles. xii. 5.) It can unnerve the boldest, and make him tremble at the fall of a pin. We are…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites Eccl 12: 5
…for old age; whose grey hairs are resembled to the white flowers of the almond-tree. Eccl 12: 5. There are fathers for seniority, on whose wrinkled brows, and in the furrows of whose…
- Selected Sermons of George Whitefield ·
The Care of the Soul Urged as the One Thing Needful cites Eccl. 12:5
…in years; though your strength be impaired so that the “grasshopper is a burthen,” Eccl. 12:5, and though you have by your long continuance in sin, rendered this great work so hard…
- Reality and Religion ·
“Strangers and Pilgrims on the Earth” cites Eccles. xii. 6
…the mother’s womb, so the spirit is severed from the body by cutting off the silver cord (Eccles. xii. 6). The mother’s womb for the child, and the body for the soul, are places of preparation…
- Holiness ·
The Fight cites Eccl. xii. 6
…word for a token that the summons was true, ‘The pitcher was broken at the fountain.’ (Eccl. xii. 6.) When he understood it, he called for his friends, and told them of it. Then said he, ‘I…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 15 — State in Which Man Was Created cites Eccles. 12:7
…soul, as when Solomon speaking of death says, that the spirit returns to God who gave it (Eccles. 12:7). And Christ, in commending his spirit to the Father, and Stephen his to Christ, simply…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
Christian Perfection cites Eccles. 12:7
…these none can hope to be perfectly freed till the spirit returns to God that gave it. [Eccles. 12:7] 8. Nor can we expect, till then, to be wholly free from temptation. Such perfection…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Being of God cites Eccles 12:7
…is a super-excellent Spirit, the Father of spirits. Heb 12:2. [2] The soul is a spirit. Eccles 12:7. ‘The spirit shall return to God that gave it.’ How does God, being a Spirit, differ from…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Resurrection cites Eccl 12:7
…are in paradise; the soul does not sleep in the body, ‘but returns to God who gave it.’ Eccl 12:7. The soul immediately partakes of those joys the blessed angels do. When the body returns…
- At the Master's Feet ·
Prayer cites Eccles. xii.8
…And this world and all that belongs to it has been proved to be vanity of vanities (Eccles. xii.8), until men discover the true fountain of peace (Isa. lv.1; Jer. ii.13; Rev. xxii.17). 7.…
- The Key Teachings of C. S. Lewis ·
His Books, and Where to Start cites ECCLESIASTES 12:12–13
…the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. ECCLESIASTES 12:12–13 Lewis wrote a great deal, in many forms, and it is not always easy to know where to…
- The Key Teachings of George MacDonald ·
His Books, and Where to Start cites ECCLESIASTES 12:12–13
…the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. ECCLESIASTES 12:12–13 MacDonald wrote more than fifty books — sermons, novels, fairy tales, fantasies and poems…
- The Key Teachings of G. K. Chesterton ·
His Books, and Where to Start cites ECCLESIASTES 12:12–13
…the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. ECCLESIASTES 12:12–13 Chesterton wrote some eighty books, and it is not always easy to know where to begin. Two…
- Knots Untied ·
Worship cites Eccles. xii. 13
…respect to his Creator. To fear God and keep His commandment, is the whole of man (Eccles. xii. 13), or is ‘whole man:’ he is not a man, but a beast, without observance of God. Religion is…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Eccl. 12:14
…be brought forth, as evidences of what he is; what he has done in darkness and in light: Eccl. 12:14, “For God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Knowledge of God cites Eccles 12:14
…The hypocrite thinks to prevaricate and juggle with God, but God will unmask him. Eccles 12:14. ‘God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing.’ Jer 29:23. ‘They…