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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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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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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5 Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
Who praises you from the grave?(A)
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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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.
Jeremiah 29:13
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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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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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Ecclesiastes 9:5-6
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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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26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly;(A) I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.(B)
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)
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.
John 4:34
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Psalm 88:10-12
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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
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.
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)
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 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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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.
Nehemiah 4:6
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6 So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.
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