Psalms 128:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

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  • Isa 3:10 : 10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
  • Eccl 8:12 : 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
  • Eph 6:3 : 3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.
  • Ps 109:11 : 11 Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.
  • Isa 62:8 : 8 The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:
  • Isa 65:13 : 13 For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:
  • Isa 65:21-23 : 21 And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them. 22 They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands. 23 Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.
  • Jer 22:15 : 15 Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Deut 28:4 : 4 A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.
  • Deut 28:11 : 11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.
  • Deut 28:39 : 39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.
  • Deut 28:51 : 51 He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.
  • Judg 6:3-6 : 3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them; 4 And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses. 5 For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. 6 And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.
  • Eccl 5:18-19 : 18 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God. 19 He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.

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  • Ps 128:3-5
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    3 Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

    4 See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

    5 May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

  • Deut 30:9
    76%

    9 And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

  • Deut 28:2-6
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    76%

    2 And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God.

    3 A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.

    4 A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

    5 A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

    6 A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out.

  • Deut 12:7
    76%

    7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

  • Ps 128:1
    75%

    1 <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.

  • Deut 28:8
    75%

    8 The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 8:10
    75%

    10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

  • Prov 12:14
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    14 From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.

  • Deut 28:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

    12 Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

  • Isa 3:10
    74%

    10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

  • Eccl 2:24
    74%

    24 There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

  • Eccl 9:7
    74%

    7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

  • Eph 6:3
    74%

    3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

  • Ps 37:3-4
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    73%

    3 Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

    4 So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.

  • Eccl 5:18-19
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    73%

    18 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

    19 He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.

  • Lev 25:19
    73%

    19 And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

  • Ps 92:4
    72%

    4 For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.

  • Lev 26:5
    72%

    5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

  • Prov 24:27
    72%

    27 Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

  • Deut 12:25
    72%

    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Eccl 3:13
    72%

    13 And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

  • Deut 8:12
    72%

    12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

  • Deut 6:11
    72%

    11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

  • Jer 29:5
    72%

    5 Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;

  • Ps 144:15
    72%

    15 Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.

  • Prov 31:27
    72%

    27 She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

  • Deut 6:18
    72%

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Prov 5:10
    71%

    10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

  • Prov 3:23
    71%

    23 Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.

  • Prov 31:31
    71%

    31 Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

  • Prov 3:8
    71%

    8 This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

  • Ps 127:2
    71%

    2 It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

  • Eccl 9:9
    71%

    9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Prov 16:20
    71%

    20 He who gives attention to the law of right will get good; and whoever puts his faith in the Lord is happy.

  • Eccl 10:17
    71%

    17 Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.

  • Prov 28:19
    71%

    19 By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

  • Prov 10:4
    71%

    4 He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

  • Ps 115:15
    71%

    15 May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

  • 1 Sam 25:6
    71%

    6 And say this to my brother, May all be well for you: peace be to you and your house and all you have.

  • Ps 112:2
    71%

    2 His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.