Ecclesiastes 9:10

Enjoy Life While It Lasts

⁹ Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun. ¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going. ¹¹ And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.

Whatever Your Hand Finds to Do

Hades

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Sheol

Colossians 3:23

Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

Romans 12:11

Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

Numbers 13:30

Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.

1 Chronicles 22:19

Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 28:20

And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.

1 Chronicles 29:2-3

Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

2 Chronicles 31:20-21

This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.

Ezra 6:14-15

And the responsible men of the Jews went on with their building, and did well, helped by the teaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They went on building till it was complete, in keeping with the word of the God of Israel, and the orders given by Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, king of Persia.

Nehemiah 2:12-16

And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.

Nehemiah 4:2

And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?

Nehemiah 4:6

So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

Nehemiah 4:9-13

But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.

Nehemiah 4:17-23

Those who were building the wall and those who were moving material did their part, everyone working with one hand, with his spear in the other;

Nehemiah 13:8-31

And it was evil in my eyes: so I had all Tobiah's things put out of the room.

Job 14:7-12

For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.

Psalm 71:15-18

My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

Psalm 88:10-12

Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

Isaiah 38:18-19

For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

Jeremiah 29:13

And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

Matthew 6:33

But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

John 4:34

Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

John 9:4

While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.

Acts 20:25-31

And now I am conscious that you, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom, will not see my face again.

Romans 15:18-20

And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

1 Corinthians 9:24

Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.

1 Corinthians 9:26

So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

1 Corinthians 16:10

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear; because he is doing the Lord's work, even as I am:

Ephesians 5:16

Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.

2 Peter 1:12-15

For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.