Ecclesiastes 9:10

Enjoy Life While It Lasts

⁹ Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun. ¹⁰ Whatever your hands find to do, do with all your strength, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going. ¹¹ Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, or the battle to the strong, or bread to the wise, or riches to the discerning, or favor to the skillful; rather, time and chance happen to all of them.

Whatever Your Hand Finds to Do

Hades

No

Sheol

Colossians 3:23

Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men,

Psalm 6:5

For there is no remembrance of You in death;
who can thank You in Sheol?

Romans 12:11

Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord.

Numbers 13:30

Then Caleb quieted the people in the presence of Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it!”

1 Chronicles 22:19

Now determine in your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Get started building the Lord God’s sanctuary so that you may bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy articles of God to the temple that is to be built for the name of Yahweh.”

1 Chronicles 28:20

Then David said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Don’t be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He won’t leave you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the Lord’s house is finished.

1 Chronicles 29:2-3

So to the best of my ability I’ve made provision for the house of my God: gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx, stones for mounting, antimony, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and a great quantity of marble.

2 Chronicles 31:20-21

Hezekiah did this throughout all Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the Lord his God.

Ezra 6:14-15

So the Jewish elders continued successfully with the building under the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.

Nehemiah 2:12-16

I got up at night and took a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal I took was the one I was riding.

Nehemiah 4:2

before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria, and said, “What are these pathetic Jews doing? Can they restore it by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they ever finish it? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

Nehemiah 4:6

So we rebuilt the wall until the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had the will to keep working.

Nehemiah 4:9-13

So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard because of them day and night.

Nehemiah 4:17-23

who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried the loads worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.

Nehemiah 13:8-31

I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the room.

Job 14:7-12

There is hope for a tree:
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its shoots will not die.

Psalm 71:15-18

My mouth will tell about Your righteousness
and Your salvation all day long,
though I cannot sum them up.

Psalm 88:10-12

Do You work wonders for the dead?
Do departed spirits rise up to praise You?Selah

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain on the earth;
whether a tree falls to the south or the north,
the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed,
and at evening do not let your hand rest,
because you don’t know which will succeed,
whether one or the other,
or if both of them will be equally good.

Isaiah 38:18-19

For Sheol cannot thank You;
Death cannot praise You.
Those who go down to the Pit
cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Jeremiah 29:13

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

John 4:34

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

John 9:4

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

Acts 20:25-31

“And now I know that none of you will ever see my face again—everyone I went about preaching the kingdom to.

Romans 15:18-20

For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

1 Corinthians 9:24

Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.

1 Corinthians 9:26

Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

1 Corinthians 16:10

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

Ephesians 5:16

making the most of the time, because the days are evil.

2 Peter 1:12-15

Therefore I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you have.