Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
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Read with care
The collection includes wisdom sayings, instructions to early churches, and an image of running a race. It does not treat the Bible as a guarantee of promotion, wealth, or victory.
Read Philippians 4:10–13 before using verse 13 as a claim that any goal is guaranteed.
How to use these passages
Use a passage to name a modest, worthwhile action rather than to predict success. Some texts emphasize diligence; others emphasize endurance or care for neighbors. Leave space for rest and help from other people.
Passages from this collection
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The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
Read Proverbs 21 →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.
Read Ecclesiastes 9 →Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Read Isaiah 40 →Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Read Matthew 5 →Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win. Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air, but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Read 1 Corinthians 9 →Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Read Galatians 6 →Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Read Philippians 3 →Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Read Philippians 4 →Find a starting point
Choose a theme, then read the chapter around any verse that stands out.