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Ecclesiastes 9:10
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Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 Whatever(A) your hand finds to do, do it with all your might,(B) for in the realm of the dead,(C) where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.(D)
Colossians 3:23
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Colossians 3:23
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23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,
Ephesians 5:16
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Ephesians 5:16
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Romans 12:11
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Romans 12:11
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11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor,(A) serving the Lord.
Psalm 6:5
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Psalm 6:5
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5 Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
Who praises you from the grave?(A)
1 Corinthians 9:24
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1 Corinthians 9:24
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The Need for Self-Discipline
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?(A) Run(B) in such a way as to get the prize.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
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Ecclesiastes 11:6
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6 Sow your seed in the morning,
and at evening let your hands not be idle,(A)
for you do not know which will succeed,
whether this or that,
or whether both will do equally well.
2 Chronicles 31:20-21
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2 Chronicles 31:20-21
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20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful(A) before the Lord his God. 21 In everything that he undertook in the service of God’s temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.(B)
Matthew 6:33
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Matthew 6:33
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33 But seek first his kingdom(A) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.(B)
Isaiah 38:18-19
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Isaiah 38:18-19
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Jeremiah 29:13
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Jeremiah 29:13
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Ecclesiastes 9:5-6
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Ecclesiastes 9:5-6
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Psalm 71:15-18
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Psalm 71:15-18
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15 My mouth will tell(A) of your righteous deeds,(B)
of your saving acts all day long—
though I know not how to relate them all.
16 I will come and proclaim your mighty acts,(C) Sovereign Lord;
I will proclaim your righteous deeds, yours alone.
17 Since my youth, God, you have taught(D) me,
and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.(E)
18 Even when I am old and gray,(F)
do not forsake me, my God,
till I declare your power(G) to the next generation,
your mighty acts to all who are to come.(H)
1 Corinthians 15:10
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1 Corinthians 15:10
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10 But by the grace(A) of God I am what I am, and his grace to me(B) was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them(C)—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.(D)
1 Corinthians 9:26
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1 Corinthians 9:26
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26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly;(A) I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.(B)
John 4:34
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John 4:34
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Ecclesiastes 11:3
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Ecclesiastes 11:3
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3 If clouds are full of water,
they pour rain on the earth.
Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,
in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
John 9:4
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John 9:4
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4 As long as it is day,(A) we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
Psalm 88:10-12
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Psalm 88:10-12
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Job 14:7-12
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Job 14:7-12
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7 “At least there is hope for a tree:(A)
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its new shoots(B) will not fail.(C)
8 Its roots may grow old in the ground
and its stump(D) die in the soil,
9 yet at the scent of water(E) it will bud
and put forth shoots like a plant.(F)
10 But a man dies and is laid low;(G)
he breathes his last and is no more.(H)
11 As the water of a lake dries up
or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,(I)
12 so he lies down and does not rise;(J)
till the heavens are no more,(K) people will not awake
or be roused from their sleep.(L)
Acts 20:25-31
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Acts 20:25-31
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25 “Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom(A) will ever see me again.(B) 26 Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you.(C) 27 For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.(D) 28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock(E) of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers.(F) Be shepherds of the church of God,[a](G) which he bought(H) with his own blood.[b](I) 29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves(J) will come in among you and will not spare the flock.(K) 30 Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples(L) after them. 31 So be on your guard! Remember that for three years(M) I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.(N)
Footnotes
- Acts 20:28 Many manuscripts of the Lord
- Acts 20:28 Or with the blood of his own Son
Nehemiah 4:2
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Nehemiah 4:2
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2 and in the presence of his associates(A) and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble(B)—burned as they are?”
Nehemiah 13:8-31
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Nehemiah 13:8-31
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8 I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.(A) 9 I gave orders to purify the rooms,(B) and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.(C)
10 I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them,(D) and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields.(E) 11 So I rebuked the officials and asked them, “Why is the house of God neglected?”(F) Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.
12 All Judah brought the tithes(G) of grain, new wine and olive oil into the storerooms.(H) 13 I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zakkur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because they were considered trustworthy. They were made responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.(I)
14 Remember(J) me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.
15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath.(K) Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day. 16 People from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them in Jerusalem on the Sabbath(L) to the people of Judah. 17 I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this wicked thing you are doing—desecrating the Sabbath day? 18 Didn’t your ancestors do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity on us and on this city?(M) Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath.”(N)
19 When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath,(O) I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day. 20 Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem. 21 But I warned them and said, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you.” From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath. 22 Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.
Remember(P) me for this also, my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.
23 Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married(Q) women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.(R) 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language(S) of Judah. 25 I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath(T) in God’s name and said: “You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves.(U) 26 Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him.(V) He was loved by his God,(W) and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women.(X) 27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying(Y) foreign women?”
28 One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib(Z) the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat(AA) the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.
29 Remember(AB) them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.(AC)
30 So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign,(AD) and assigned them duties, each to his own task. 31 I also made provision for contributions of wood(AE) at designated times, and for the firstfruits.(AF)
Remember(AG) me with favor, my God.
Nehemiah 4:17-23
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Nehemiah 4:17-23
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17 who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon(A) in the other, 18 and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet(B) stayed with me.
19 Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall. 20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet,(C) join us there. Our God will fight(D) for us!”
21 So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out. 22 At that time I also said to the people, “Have every man and his helper stay inside Jerusalem at night, so they can serve us as guards by night and as workers by day.” 23 Neither I nor my brothers nor my men nor the guards with me took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even when he went for water.[a]
Footnotes
- Nehemiah 4:23 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
Nehemiah 4:9-13
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Nehemiah 4:9-13
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9 But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.
10 Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers(A) is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”
11 Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.”
12 Then the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
13 Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows.
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