^10 (A)Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your ^(B)might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

^23 (A)And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,

^16 (A)redeeming the time, ^(B)because the days are evil.

¹¹ not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

Striving for a Crown

²⁴ Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? ^(A)Run in such a way that you may ^[a]obtain it.

²⁰ Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he ^(A)did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. ²¹ And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, in the law and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart. So he ^(B)prospered.

³³ But ^(A)seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.