Luke 12:26

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

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

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.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

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.

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

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 God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

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

He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”

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

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

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.

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

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.”

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

“Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me,

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

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.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.

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

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

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.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

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

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.