Ecclesiastes 9:1

New American Bible - revised edition

All this I have kept in my heart and all this I examined: The just, the wise, and their deeds are in the hand of God. Love from hatred mortals cannot tell; both are before them.

Cross References

Job 12:10

In his hand is the soul of every living thing, and the life breath of all mortal flesh.

Job 27:12

Look, you yourselves have all seen it; why do you spend yourselves in empty words!

Job 5:8

In your place, I would appeal to God, and to God I would state my plea.

Psalm 10:14

But you do see; you take note of misery and sorrow; you take the matter in hand. To you the helpless can entrust their cause; you are the defender of orphans.

Psalm 119:109

My life is always at risk, but I do not forget your law.

Psalm 31:5

Free me from the net they have set for me, for you are my refuge.

Psalm 73:3

Because I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Proverbs 16:3

Entrust your works to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

yet fools multiply words. No one knows what is to come, for who can tell anyone what will be?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen all manner of things in my vain days: the just perishing in their justice, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my heart toward knowledge; I sought and pursued wisdom and its design, and I recognized that wickedness is foolishness and folly is madness. Critique of Advice on Women.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

This is a vanity that occurs on earth: There are those who are just but are treated as though they had done evil, and those who are wicked but are treated as though they had done justly. This, too, I say is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, though neither by day nor by night do one’s eyes see sleep,

Ecclesiastes 8:7

that they are ignorant of what is to come; for who will make known to them how it will be?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

For them, love and hatred and rivalry have long since perished. Never again will they have part in anything that is done under the sun.

Isaiah 26:12

Lord, you will decree peace for us, for you have accomplished all we have done.

Jeremiah 43:6

men, women, and children, the princesses and everyone whom Nebuzaradan, captain of the bodyguard, had consigned to Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah, the prophet, and Baruch, son of Neriah.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Indeed, lover of the peoples, all the holy ones are at your side; They follow at your heels, carry out your decisions.

2 Timothy 1:12

On this account I am suffering these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know him in whom I have believed and am confident that he is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.

1 Peter 1:5

who by the power of God are safeguarded through faith, to a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the final time.

1 Samuel 2:9

He guards the footsteps of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall perish in the darkness; for not by strength does one prevail.