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2 Corinthians 10:3-4

2 Corinthians 10:3-4 (NLT)
We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do.

Ecclesiastes 3:9, Ecclesiastes 3:11-12

Ecclesiastes 3:9 (NLT)
What do people really get for all their hard work?

Ecclesiastes 3:11-12 (NLT)
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

The futility of hard work

Ecclesiastes 2:23-25 (NLT)
Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night their minds cannot rest. It is all meaningless.

How to enter in Rest through labor believing in Jesus (confidence, assurance, and trust)

John 6:27-35 (NKJV)
Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.

Laboring to stay in faith, to remain in belief, to enter into finished work

Hebrews 4:11 (NKJV)
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

Entering into rest by faith through grace

Hebrews 4:4-10 (NKJV)
For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: And God rested on the seventh day from all His works;

2 Corinthians 7:5, 2 Corinthians 7:9-10

2 Corinthians 7:5 (NLT)
When we arrived in Macedonia, there was no rest for us. We faced conflict from every direction, with battles on the outside and fear on the inside.

2 Corinthians 7:9-10 (NLT)
Now I am glad I sent it, not because it hurt you, but because the pain caused you to repent and change your ways. It was the kind of sorrow God wants his people to have, so you were not harmed by us in any way.

2 Corinthians 5:5-6

2 Corinthians 5:5-6 (NLT)
God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.

Joshua 1:8-9

Joshua 1:8-9 (NKJV)
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Genesis 17:1

Genesis 17:1 (NKJV)
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.

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Matthew 7:13-14 (NKJV)
Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.

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Hebrews 1:3 (NKJV)
who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

2 Chronicles 20:9

2 Chronicles 20:9 (NLT)
They said, ‘Whenever we are faced with any calamity such as war, plague, or famine, we can come to stand in your presence before this Temple where your name is honored. We can cry out to you to save us, and you will hear us and rescue us.’

2 Chronicles 19:9

2 Chronicles 19:9 (NLT)
These were his instructions to them: “You must always act in the fear of the LORD, with faithfulness and an undivided heart.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Ecclesiastes 11:10 (NLT)
So refuse to worry, and keep your body healthy. But remember that youth, with a whole life before you, is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

Ecclesiastes 11:6 (NLT)
Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.

Jeremiah 17:5-10

Jeremiah 17:5-10 (NLT)
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the LORD.

Romans 5:1-4

Romans 5:1-4 (NLT)
Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.

1 Chronicles 28:20

1 Chronicles 28:20 (NLT)
Then David continued, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Don’t be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. He will see to it that all the work related to the Temple of the LORD is finished correctly.

James 1:2-8, James 1:12-13, James 1:15-17

James 1:2-8 (NLT)
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.

James 1:12-13 (NLT)
God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

James 1:15-17 (NLT)
These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.

1 Corinthians 10:13

1 Corinthians 10:13 (AMP)
For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.

Revelation 21:6-8

Revelation 21:6-8 (KJV)
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

John 3:16-17

John 3:16-17 (KJV)
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Mark 4:12-20

Mark 4:12-20 (NKJV)
so that Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them.

Mark 4:12-19

Mark 4:12-19 (NKJV)
so that Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them.