Ecclesiastes 9:1

So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.

Cross References (26)

  • Deuteronomy 33:3 (5)

    Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words

  • John 10:27–30 (2)

    My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

  • 1 Peter 1:5 (1)

    who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

  • Job 12:10 (1)

    The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:15 (1)

    In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living lon

  • Ecclesiastes 8:14 (1)

    There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, a

  • Psalms 37:5–6 (-1)

    Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.

  • Malachi 3:15–18 (-1)

    So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

  • Proverbs 16:3 (-1)

    Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.

  • Psalms 73:11–13 (-1)

    The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

  • Ecclesiastes 12:9–10 (-1)

    Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many pro

  • Isaiah 49:1–4 (-1)

    Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother

  • 2 Timothy 1:12 (-1)

    For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced tha

  • Isaiah 26:12 (-1)

    O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.

  • Psalms 31:5 (-1)

    Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.

  • 1 Samuel 2:9 (-1)

    He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevai

  • Jeremiah 1:18–19 (-1)

    Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—agai

  • Psalms 10:14 (-2)

    But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are t

  • Ecclesiastes 8:16 (-2)

    When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see

  • Ecclesiastes 1:17 (-2)

    So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

  • Ecclesiastes 10:14 (-2)

    Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

  • 1 Corinthians 3:5–15 (-2)

    What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each hi

  • 2 Samuel 15:25–26 (-2)

    Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring

  • Ecclesiastes 7:25 (-2)

    I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of

  • Psalms 73:3 (-2)

    For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

  • Job 5:8 (-2)

    However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—