Ecclesiastes (The Purpose in Life)

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV

13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Isaiah 43:7 ESV

7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

John 10:10 ESV

10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

1 Timothy 6:6 ESV

6 But godliness with contentment is great gain,

Matthew 16:25–26 ESV

25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Proverbs 8:11 ESV

11 for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

Proverbs 8:19 ESV

19 My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.

Proverbs 15:17 ESV

17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 16:8 ESV

8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

Proverbs 19:1 ESV

1 Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.

2 Corinthians 4:17–18 ESV

17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Hebrews 12:1–2 ESV

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.