Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;
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Genesis 39:8But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master knows not what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand;
Deuteronomy 8:18But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as it is this day.
1 Samuel 2:18But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 3:19And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.
1 Samuel 16:12And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was rosy, and likewise of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
2 Samuel 19:35I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should your servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 12:1
The wise and penitent preacher is here closing his sermon; and he closes it, not only lie a good orator, but like a good preacher, with that which was likely to make the best impressions and which he wished might be powerful and lasting upon his hearers. Here is, I. An exhortation to young people to begin betimes to be religious and not to put it off to old age ( ver. 1 ), enforced with arguments taken from the calamities of old age ( ver. 1-5 ) and the great change that death will make upon us, ver. 6, 7 . II. A… Read the whole commentary →