Ecclesiastes 9:10

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

1 Chronicles 22:19

Now set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the Lord.”

1 Chronicles 28:20

Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and of good courage, and do it. Fear not, be not dismayed; for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished.

Nehemiah 2:12

Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; and I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no beast with me but the beast on which I rode.

Nehemiah 4:2

And he said in the presence of his brethren and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore things? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”

Nehemiah 4:6

So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height. For the people had a mind to work.

Job 10:21

before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

Job 10:22

the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness.”

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who can give thee praise?

Proverbs 3:28

Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.

Jeremiah 29:13

You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart,

Numbers 13:30

But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once, and occupy it; for we are well able to overcome it.”

Matthew 20:7

They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’

Matthew 6:33

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

John 5:4

John 9:4

We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day; night comes, when no one can work.

Romans 12:11

Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

1 Corinthians 16:10

When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I am.

1 Corinthians 9:24

Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

1 Corinthians 9:26

Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air;

Ephesians 5:16

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

Colossians 3:23

Whatever your task, work heartily, as serving the Lord and not men,

1 Samuel 10:7

Now when these signs meet you, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.