So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?”
While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.
The simple man believes every word, but the prudent man watches his steps.
saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work