Ecclesiastes 9:1
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Take Life as It Comes
9 All this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate one does not know. Everything that confronts them
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Deuteronomy 33:3
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3 Indeed, O favorite among[a] peoples,
all his holy ones were in your charge;
they marched at your heels,
accepted direction from you.(A)
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- 33.3 Or O lover of the
1 Peter 1:5
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5 who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.(A)
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John 10:27-30
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27 My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.(A) 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.(B) 29 My Father, in regard to what he has given me, is greater than all,[a] and no one can snatch them out of the Father’s hand.(C) 30 The Father and I are one.”
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- 10.29 Other ancient authorities read What my Father has given me is greater than all else or My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all
Ecclesiastes 8:14
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14 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people who are treated according to the conduct of the wicked and wicked people who are treated according to the conduct of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.(A)
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Job 12:10
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10 In his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of every human being.(A)
2 Timothy 1:12
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12 and for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.[a](A)
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- 1.12 Or the deposit he has entrusted to me
Malachi 3:15-18
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15 Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.”(A)
The Reward of the Faithful
16 Then those who revered the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord took note and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who revered the Lord and thought on his name.(B) 17 They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.(C) 18 Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.(D)
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Isaiah 26:12
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12 O Lord, may you ordain peace for us,
for indeed, all that we have done, you have done for us.(A)
Proverbs 16:3
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3 Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established.(A)
Psalm 73:11-13
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11 And they say, “How can God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”(A)
12 Such are the wicked;
always at ease, they increase in riches.(B)
13 All in vain I have kept my heart clean
and washed my hands in innocence.(C)
Psalm 37:5-6
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5 Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.(A)
6 He will make your vindication shine like the light
and the justice of your cause like the noonday.(B)
Psalm 31:5
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5 Into your hand I commit my spirit;
you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.(A)
1 Samuel 2:9
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9 He will guard the feet of his faithful ones,
but the wicked will perish in darkness,
for not by might does one prevail.(A)
1 Corinthians 3:5-15
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5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and each will receive wages according to their own labor.(A) 9 For we are God’s coworkers, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.(B)
10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Let each builder choose with care how to build on it.(C) 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.(D) 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 the work of each builder will become visible, for the day[a] will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.(E) 14 If the work that someone has built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a wage. 15 If the work is burned up, the builder will suffer loss; the builder will be saved, but only as through fire.
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- 3.13 Or the Day
Jeremiah 1:18-19
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18 And I for my part have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.(A) 19 They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the Lord, to deliver you.”(B)
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Isaiah 49:1-4
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The Servant’s Mission
49 Listen to me, O coastlands;
pay attention, you peoples from far away!
The Lord called me before I was born;
while I was in my mother’s womb he named me.(A)
2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword;
in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me a polished arrow;
in his quiver he hid me away.(B)
3 And he said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”(C)
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my cause is with the Lord
and my reward with my God.”(D)
Ecclesiastes 12:9-10
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Epilogue
9 Besides being wise, the Teacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs.(A) 10 The Teacher sought to find pleasing words, and he wrote words of truth plainly.(B)
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Ecclesiastes 10:14
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14 yet fools talk on and on.
No one knows what is to happen,
and who can tell anyone what the future holds?(A)
Ecclesiastes 8:16
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16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, how one’s eyes see sleep neither day nor night,
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Ecclesiastes 7:25
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25 I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 7:15
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The Riddles of Life
15 In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked people who prolong their life in their evildoing.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
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17 And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind.(A)
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Psalm 73:3
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3 For I was envious of the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.(A)
Psalm 10:14
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14 But you do see! Indeed, you note trouble and grief,
that you may take it into your hands;
the helpless commit themselves to you;
you have been the helper of the orphan.(A)
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