Ecclesiastes 9:1

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

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

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

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

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

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?

“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

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

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

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),

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.