Ecclesiastes 6:7

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”

Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.