Psalms 6:5

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

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

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?

The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

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.

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

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

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

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.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”

All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”

“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

“Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

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

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

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

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,