Ecclesiastes 9:10

Do whatever your hand finds to do with all your might, for there is no work or wisdom in Sheol where you are going. The brevity of life calls for wholehearted, diligent labor now.

Cross-references · 34

• Col 3:23And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
• Eph 5:16Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
• Rom 12:11Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
• Ps 6:5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
• 2 Chr 31:20–21And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
• Eccl 11:6In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
• 1 Cor 9:24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
• Jer 29:13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
• Matt 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• John 9:4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
• Eccl 9:5–6For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
• Isa 38:18–19For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
• 1 Cor 9:26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• Ps 71:15–18My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
• Ps 88:10–12Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
• John 4:34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
• Eccl 11:3If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
• Neh 4:2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
• Acts 20:25–31And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
• 1 Chr 22:19Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
• Neh 4:9–13Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
• Job 14:7–12For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
• Neh 4:17–23They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
• Num 13:30And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
• Neh 13:8–31And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
• Ezra 6:14–15And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
• 1 Chr 28:20And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
• Neh 4:6So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
• 2 Pet 1:12–15Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
• 1 Cor 16:10Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
• 1 Chr 29:2–3Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
• Neh 2:12And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
• Rom 15:18–20For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

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