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 33:3Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.
• John 10:27–30My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
• Eccl 7:15All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
• 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Job 12:10in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
• Eccl 8:14There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
• 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
• Mal 3:15–18Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
• Isa 26:12Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.
• Ps 31:5Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
• Isa 49:1–4Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother he has mentioned my name.
• Ps 73:11–13They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
• Prov 16:3Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
• Jer 1:18–19For, behold, I have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
• 2 Tim 1:12For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
• Eccl 12:9–10Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
• Ps 37:5–6Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
• Ps 73:3For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Eccl 8:16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
• Ps 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
• Job 5:8“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
• 2 Sam 15:25–26The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;
• 1 Cor 3:5–15Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
• Eccl 1:17I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
• Eccl 10:14A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
• Eccl 7:25I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

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