Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 Whatever your hand finds to do, (A)do it with your might,[a] (B)for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Or finds to do with your might, do it
Colossians 3:23
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23 (A)Whatever you do, work heartily, (B)as for the Lord and not for men,
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Ephesians 5:16
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16 (A)making the best use of the time, because (B)the days are evil.
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Romans 12:11
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11 Do not be slothful in zeal, (A)be fervent in spirit,[a] (B)serve the Lord.
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- Romans 12:11 Or fervent in the Spirit
Psalm 6:5
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5 For in (A)death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who will give you praise?
1 Corinthians 9:26
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26 So I do not run aimlessly; I (A)do not box as one (B)beating the air.
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1 Corinthians 9:24
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24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives (A)the prize? So (B)run that you may obtain it.
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Matthew 6:33
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33 But (A)seek first (B)the kingdom of God and his righteousness, (C)and all these things will be added to you.
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Jeremiah 29:13
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13 (A)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (B)with all your heart.
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Isaiah 38:18-19
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18 (A)For Sheol does not thank you;
death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
for your faithfulness.
19 The living, the living, he thanks you,
as I do this day;
(B)the father makes known to the children
your faithfulness.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
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6 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening (A)withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
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2 Chronicles 31:20-21
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20 Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, (A)and he did what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God. 21 And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.
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1 Corinthians 15:10
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10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, (A)I worked harder than any of them, (B)though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
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Acts 20:25-31
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25 And now, behold, (A)I know that none of you among whom I have gone about (B)proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again. 26 Therefore (C)I testify to you this day that (D)I am innocent of the blood of all, 27 for (E)I did not shrink from declaring to you (F)the whole counsel of God. 28 (G)Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all (H)the flock, in which (I)the Holy Spirit has made you (J)overseers, (K)to care for (L)the church of God,[a] which he (M)obtained (N)with his own blood.[b] 29 I (O)know that after my departure (P)fierce wolves will come in among you, (Q)not sparing the flock; 30 and (R)from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31 Therefore (S)be alert, remembering that (T)for three years I did not cease night or day (U)to admonish every one (V)with tears.
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- Acts 20:28 Some manuscripts of the Lord
- Acts 20:28 Or with the blood of his Own
John 9:4
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4 We must (A)work the works of him who sent me (B)while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
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John 4:34
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34 Jesus said to them, (A)“My food is (B)to do the will of him who sent me and (C)to accomplish his work.
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Ecclesiastes 11:3
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3 If the clouds are full of rain,
they empty themselves on the earth,
and if a tree falls to the south or to the north,
in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6
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5 For the living know that they will die, but (A)the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for (B)the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
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Psalm 71:15-18
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15 My (A)mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for (B)their number is past my knowledge.
16 With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
18 So even to (C)old age and gray hairs,
O God, (D)do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Psalm 88:10-12
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10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
(A)Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your (B)wonders known in (C)the darkness,
or your righteousness in the land of (D)forgetfulness?
Job 14:7-12
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7 “For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
8 Though its root grow old in the earth,
and (A)its stump die in the soil,
9 yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out (B)branches like a young plant.
10 But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and (C)where is he?
11 (D)As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,
12 so a man lies down and rises not again;
till (E)the heavens are no more he will not awake
or be (F)roused out of his sleep.
Nehemiah 13:8-31
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8 And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the chamber. 9 Then I gave orders, and they (A)cleansed the chambers, and I brought back there the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.
10 I also found out that (B)the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each (C)to his field. 11 (D)So I confronted the officials and said, (E)“Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their stations. 12 Then all Judah brought (F)the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses. 13 And (G)I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, (H)for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers. 14 (I)Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.
15 In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses (J)on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, (K)which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And (L)I warned them on the day when they sold food. 16 Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! 17 (M)Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, (N)profaning the Sabbath day? 18 (O)Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster[a] on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”
19 As soon as it (P)began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. 20 Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. 21 (Q)But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. 22 Then I commanded the Levites (R)that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. (S)Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.
23 In those days also I saw the Jews (T)who had married women (U)of Ashdod, (V)Ammon, and (W)Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. 25 (X)And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. (Y)And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26 (Z)Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? (AA)Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was (AB)beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. 27 Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and (AC)act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”
28 And one of the sons of (AD)Jehoiada, the son of (AE)Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of (AF)Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me. 29 (AG)Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood (AH)and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
30 (AI)Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work; 31 and I provided (AJ)for the wood offering (AK)at appointed times, and for the firstfruits.
(AL)Remember me, O my God, for good.
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- Nehemiah 13:18 The Hebrew word can mean evil, harm, or disaster, depending on the context
Nehemiah 4:17-23
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17 who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other. 18 And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. 19 And I said to (A)the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. 20 In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. (B)Our God will fight for us.”
21 So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out. 22 I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.” 23 So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; (C)each kept his weapon at his right hand.[a]
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- Nehemiah 4:23 Or his weapon when drinking
Nehemiah 4:9-13
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9 And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.
10 In Judah it was said,[a] “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.” 11 And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.” 12 At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, “You must return to us.”[b] 13 So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
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- Nehemiah 4:10 Hebrew Judah said
- Nehemiah 4:12 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Nehemiah 4:2
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2 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of (A)Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves?[a] Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”
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- Nehemiah 4:2 Or Will they commit themselves to God?
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