Ecclesiastes 3:10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

and we did not eat anyone's bread without paying for it; but with toil and labor we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you.