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)

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23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,

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16 making the most of every opportunity,(A) because the days are evil.(B)

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11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor,(A) serving the Lord.

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Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
    Who praises you from the grave?(A)

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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)

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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.

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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)

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13 You will seek(A) me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.(B)

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18 For the grave(A) cannot praise you,
    death cannot sing your praise;(B)
those who go down to the pit(C)
    cannot hope for your faithfulness.
19 The living, the living—they praise(D) you,
    as I am doing today;
parents tell their children(E)
    about your faithfulness.

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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.

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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)

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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)

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