Ecclesiastes 9:7

World English Bible (2000)

Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

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  • Eccl 8:15 : 15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
  • Eccl 2:24-26 : 24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? 26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
  • Eccl 3:12-13 : 12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. 13 Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
  • Eccl 5:18 : 18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
  • Deut 12:7 : 7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
  • Deut 12:12 : 12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
  • 1 Chr 16:1-3 : 1 They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. 2 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh. 3 He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
  • Exod 24:8-9 : 8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words." 9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up. 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness. 11 He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
  • 1 Chr 29:21-23 : 21 They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel, 22 and ate and drink before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest. 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
  • 2 Chr 30:23-27 : 23 The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness. 24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. 25 All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced. 26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem. 27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
  • Neh 8:10-12 : 10 Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength." 11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, "Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be grieved." 12 All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
  • Deut 16:14-15 : 14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates. 15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
  • 1 Kgs 8:66 : 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.
  • Gen 4:4-5 : 4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, 5 but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
  • Eccl 10:19 : 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.
  • Mark 7:29 : 29 He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."
  • Luke 11:41 : 41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
  • John 4:50 : 50 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
  • Gen 12:19 : 19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

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  • Eccl 8:15
    80%

    15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:11-14
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    77%

    11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

    12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

    13 Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

    14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

  • Eccl 5:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

    19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.

    20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 2:24-26
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    24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

    25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

    26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 9:8-10
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    76%

    8 Let your garments be always white, and don't let your head lack oil.

    9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

    10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

  • Ps 104:15
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    15 wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.

  • Eccl 11:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

    10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

  • Ps 4:7
    75%

    7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

  • Neh 8:10
    74%

    10 Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength."

  • Ps 128:2
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    2 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

  • Eccl 3:22
    73%

    22 Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

  • Deut 12:7
    73%

    7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

  • Prov 9:5
    73%

    5 "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

  • Isa 22:13
    72%

    13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."

  • Eccl 10:19
    72%

    19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

  • Eccl 2:1
    72%

    1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.

  • Deut 14:26
    72%

    26 and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

  • Prov 3:10
    71%

    10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

  • Luke 12:19
    71%

    19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

  • Eccl 2:10
    71%

    10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

  • Zech 9:17
    71%

    17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

  • Prov 31:6-7
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    71%

    6 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

    7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

  • Eccl 11:7
    70%

    7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

  • Prov 23:7
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    7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

  • Jer 16:8
    70%

    8 You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

  • Prov 15:15
    70%

    15 All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

  • Eccl 9:6
    70%

    6 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 7:14
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    14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

  • Eccl 10:17
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    17 Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

  • Isa 24:7
    70%

    7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

  • Eccl 9:1
    69%

    1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

  • Eccl 2:3
    69%

    3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

  • Job 8:21
    69%

    21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

  • Judg 19:6
    69%

    6 So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together: and the young lady's father said to the man, "Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry."

  • Eccl 7:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

    3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

  • Prov 15:13
    69%

    13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

  • Neh 8:12
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    12 All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

  • Deut 27:7
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    7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.