Ecclesiastes 9:1

The righteous and wise, with all their deeds, are securely in God's hand, even though we cannot read from circumstances whether love or hatred awaits. Our security rests in God's keeping, not in visible signs.

Cross-references · 26

• Deut 33:3Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—
• John 10:27–30My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
• Eccl 7:15In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
• 1 Pet 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
• Eccl 8:14There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.
• 1 Sam 2:9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
• Mal 3:15–18So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
• Isa 26:12O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
• Ps 31:5Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.
• Isa 49:1–4Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
• Ps 73:11–13The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
• Prov 16:3Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
• Jer 1:18–19Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
• 2 Tim 1:12For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.
• Eccl 12:9–10Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.
• Ps 37:5–6Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
• Ps 73:3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Eccl 8:16When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
• Ps 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
• Job 5:8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
• 2 Sam 15:25–26Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.
• 1 Cor 3:5–15What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.
• Eccl 1:17So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
• Eccl 10:14Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
• Eccl 7:25I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

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