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 33:3Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
• John 10:27–30My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
• Eccl 7:15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
• 1 Pet 1:5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Job 12:10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
• Eccl 8:14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
• 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
• Mal 3:15–18And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
• Isa 26:12LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
• Ps 31:5Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
• Isa 49:1–4Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
• Ps 73:11–13And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
• Prov 16:3Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
• Jer 1:18–19For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
• 2 Tim 1:12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
• Eccl 12:9–10And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
• Ps 37:5–6Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
• Ps 73:3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Eccl 8:16When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
• Ps 10:14Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
• Job 5:8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
• 2 Sam 15:25–26And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
• 1 Cor 3:5–15Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
• Eccl 1:17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
• Eccl 10:14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
• Eccl 7:25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

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