Ecclesiastes 2:22
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22 What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun?(A)
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Ecclesiastes 1:3
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3 What do people gain from all the toil
at which they toil under the sun?(A)
Psalm 127:2
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2 It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil,
for he gives sleep to his beloved.[a](A)
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- 127.2 Or for he provides for his beloved during sleep
1 Peter 5:7
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7 Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.(A)
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1 Timothy 6:8
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8 but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
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Philippians 4:6
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6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.(A)
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Matthew 6:34
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34 “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
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Ecclesiastes 4:6
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6 Better is a handful with quiet
than two handfuls with toil
and a chasing after wind.(A)
Ecclesiastes 3:9
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Matthew 16:26
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26 For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
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Matthew 6:11
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Ecclesiastes 8:15
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15 So I commend enjoyment, for there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat and drink and enjoy themselves, for this will go with them in their toil through the days of life that God gives them under the sun.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 6:7-8
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7 All human toil is for the mouth, yet the appetite is not satisfied.(A) 8 For what advantage have the wise over fools? And what do the poor have who know how to conduct themselves before the living?(B)
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Ecclesiastes 5:17
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17 Besides, all their days they eat in darkness, in much anger and sickness and resentment.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 5:10-11
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10 The lover of money will not be satisfied with money, nor the lover of wealth with gain. This also is vanity.(A)
11 When goods increase, those who eat them increase, and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
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8 the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.(A)
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Luke 12:29
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29 And do not keep seeking what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying.
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Luke 12:22
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Do Not Worry
22 He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
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Matthew 6:25
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Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink,[a] or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?(A)
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- 6.25 Other ancient authorities lack or what you will drink
Proverbs 16:26
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26 The appetite of workers works for them;
their hunger urges them on.
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