And whatsoever ye do, do {it} heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

For in death {there is} no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both {shall be} alike good. {shall prosper: Heb. shall be right}

And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought {that which was} good and right and truth before the LORD his God.

And ye shall seek me, and find {me}, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can {not} celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which {was bestowed} upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness {and} thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers {thereof}.

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise {and} praise thee? Selah.

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? {fortify...: Heb. leave to themselves}

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty {themselves} upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, {every one} with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other {hand} held a weapon.

Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.

Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do {it}: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, {even} my God, {will be} with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.

So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.

And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished {it}, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. {commandment: Chaldee, decree}

Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also {do}.

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know {them}, and be established in the present truth.

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I {any} man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither {was there any} beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for {things to be made} of gold, and the silver for {things} of silver, and the brass for {things} of brass, the iron for {things} of iron, and wood for {things} of wood; onyx stones, and {stones} to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

And whatsoever ye do, do {it} heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both {shall be} alike good. {shall prosper: Heb. shall be right}

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

For in death {there is} no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

So teach {us} to number our days, that we may apply {our} hearts unto wisdom. {apply: Heb. cause to come}

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean {men}. {mean...: Heb. obscure men}

And that, knowing the time, that now {it is} high time to awake out of sleep: for now {is} our salvation nearer than when we believed.

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can {not} celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Arise; for {this} matter {belongeth} unto thee: we also {will be} with thee: be of good courage, and do {it}.

And, behold, this day I {am} going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, {and} not one thing hath failed thereof.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

What profit {is there} in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all {men}, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did {it} with all his heart, and prospered.

I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any {of us} go to his tent, neither will we any {of us} turn into his house.

Then Jerubbaal, who {is} Gideon, and all the people that {were} with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:

And it shall be, {that} in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, {when} he and the people that {is} with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion. {as thou shalt...: Heb. as thine hand shall find}

She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave {it} unto Hagar, putting {it} on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. {Set...: Heb. Give charge concerning thy house}

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I {do} this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put {for} his pillows, and set it up {for} a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.

And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, {that} thou do as occasion serve thee; for God {is} with thee. {And...: Heb. And it shall come to pass, that when these signs, etc} {that...: Heb. do for thee as thine hand shall find}

And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.

And Philip ran thither to {him}, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for {things to be made} of gold, and the silver for {things} of silver, and the brass for {things} of brass, the iron for {things} of iron, and wood for {things} of wood; onyx stones, and {stones} to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, {let him do it} with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. {giveth: or, imparteth} {with simplicity: or, liberally}

And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter {and} to destroy this house of God which {is} at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.

After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning {of the wall} unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest. {Zabbai: also called, Zaccai}

And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I {am} doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, {and} went up from Gilgal all night.

And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long {are} ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

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

Then called he them in, and lodged {them}. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.

For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.

So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:

And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.

And David danced before the LORD with all {his} might; and David {was} girded with a linen ephod.

And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving {is} like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously. {driving: or, marching} {furiously: Heb. in madness}

And David said, Solomon my son {is} young and tender, and the house {that is} to be builded for the LORD {must be} exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will {therefore} now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

And the king said, Who {is} in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

{So} the posts that rode upon mules {and} camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.

And it was so, when the days of {their} feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings {according} to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. {continually: Heb. all the days}

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, {even} the thoughts of my heart. {the thoughts: Heb. the possessions}

Also {when} they shall be afraid of {that which is} high, and fears {shall be} in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, {whether} the tender grape appear, {and} the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. {appear: Heb. open}

Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation. {I have...: Chaldee, That I have found} {captives...: Chaldee, children of the captivity of Judah}

They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, {that} shall ye receive.

And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.

And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

And when he had declared all {these} things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.

But this I say, brethren, the time {is} short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

A wise man's heart {is} at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

And there was set {meat} before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.