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 whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
• Eph 5:16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
• Rom 12:11not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
• Ps 6:5For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
• 2 Chr 31:20–21Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.
• Eccl 11:6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
• 1 Cor 9:24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
• Jer 29:13You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
• Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
• John 9:4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
• Eccl 9:5–6For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
• Isa 38:18–19For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
• 1 Cor 9:26I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• Ps 71:15–18My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
• Ps 88:10–12Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
• John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• Eccl 11:3If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
• Neh 4:2He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”
• Acts 20:25–31“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.
• 1 Chr 22:19Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”
• Neh 4:9–13But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
• Job 14:7–12“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
• Neh 4:17–23Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.
• Num 13:30Caleb 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 13:8–31It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
• Ezra 6:14–15The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
• 1 Chr 28:20David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
• Neh 4:6So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.
• 2 Pet 1:12–15Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
• 1 Cor 16:10Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does 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 the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the brass for the things of brass, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
• Neh 2:12I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.
• Rom 15:18–20For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

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