Ecclesiastes 3:22

There is nothing better than to enjoy one's work, for that is our portion, since no one can see what comes after. Present, God-given enjoyment of labor is wisdom amid life's uncertainties.

Cross-references · 21

• Eccl 2:24Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
• Eccl 3:11–12He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
• Eccl 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
• Eccl 10:14Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
• Eccl 8:7Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
• Phil 4:4–5Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
• Eccl 11:9Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. 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 to judgment.
• Eccl 2:10–11Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
• Matt 6:34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.
• Eccl 5:18–20Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
• Dan 12:9–10“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
• Eccl 8:15So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
• Dan 12:13But as for you, go on your way until the end. You will rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”
• Job 14:21If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.
• Deut 28:47Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
• Eccl 9:12For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
• Eccl 9:7–9Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
• Deut 26:10–11And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.
• Deut 12:18Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
• Deut 12:7There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
• Rom 12:11–12Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

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