Ecclesiastes 9:10

New International Reader's Version

No matter what you do, work at it with all your might. Remember, you are going to the place of the dead. And there isn’t any work or planning or knowledge or wisdom there.

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

All Jacob’s other sons and daughters came to comfort him. But they weren’t able to. He said, “I will continue to mourn until I go down into the grave to be with my son.” So Joseph’s father mourned for him.

1 Chronicles 22:19

So be committed to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul. Start building the temple of the Lord God. Then bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord into it. Also bring in the sacred objects that belong to God. The temple will be built for the Name of the Lord.”

1 Chronicles 28:20

David also said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and brave. Get to work. Don’t be afraid. Don’t lose hope. The Lord God is my God. He is with you. He won’t fail you. He won’t desert you until all the work for serving in the Lord’s temple is finished.

Nehemiah 2:12

Then at night I took a few other people with me to check out the walls. I hadn’t told anyone what my God wanted me to do for Jerusalem. There weren’t any donkeys with me except the one I was riding on.

Nehemiah 4:2

He spoke to his friends and the army of Samaria. He said, “What are those Jews trying to do? Can they make their city wall like new again? Will they offer sacrifices? Can they finish everything in a single day? The stones from their city wall and buildings are piled up like trash. And everything has been badly burned. Can they use those stones to rebuild everything again?”

Nehemiah 4:6

So we rebuilt the wall. We repaired it until all of it was half as high as we wanted it to be. The people worked with all their heart.

Job 10:21

Turn away before I go to the place I can’t return from. It’s the land of gloom and total darkness.

Job 10:22

It’s the land of darkest night and total darkness and disorder. There even the light is like darkness.’ ”

Job 21:13

Those who are evil spend their years living well. They go down to their graves in peace.

Psalm 6:5

Dead people can’t call out your name. How can they praise you when they are in the grave?

Proverbs 3:28

Suppose you already have something to give. Don’t say to your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow. I’ll give it to you then.”

Ecclesiastes 11:3

Clouds that are full of water pour rain down on the earth. A tree might fall to the south or the north. It will stay in the place where it falls.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning plant your seeds. In the evening keep your hands busy. You don’t know what will succeed. It may be one or the other. Or both might do equally well.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, “I’m enjoying the best years of my life. Must I now go through the gates of death? Will the rest of my years be taken away from me?”

Jeremiah 29:13

When you look for me with all your heart, you will find me.

Numbers 13:30

Then Caleb interrupted the men speaking to Moses. He said, “We should go up and take the land. We can certainly do it.”

Matthew 20:7

“ ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. “He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

Matthew 6:33

But put God’s kingdom first. Do what he wants you to do. Then all those things will also be given to you.

John 4:34

Jesus said, “My food is to do what my Father sent me to do. My food is to finish his work.

John 9:4

While it is still day, we must do the works of the one who sent me. Night is coming. Then no one can work.

Romans 12:11

Stay excited about your faith as you serve the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But because of God’s grace I am what I am. And his grace was not wasted on me. No, I have worked harder than all the other apostles. But I didn’t do the work. God’s grace was with me.

1 Corinthians 16:10

Timothy will visit you. Make sure he has nothing to worry about while he is with you. He is doing the work of the Lord, just as I am.

1 Corinthians 9:24

In a race all the runners run. But only one gets the prize. You know that, don’t you? So run in a way that will get you the prize.

1 Corinthians 9:26

So I do not run like someone who doesn’t run toward the finish line. I do not fight like a boxer who hits nothing but air.

Ephesians 5:16

Make the most of every opportunity. The days are evil.

Colossians 3:23

Work at everything you do with all your heart. Work as if you were working for the Lord, not for human masters.

1 Samuel 10:7

All these things will happen. Then do what you want to do. God is with you.