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 2:24There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
• Eccl 3:11–12He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
• Eccl 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
• Eccl 10:14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
• Eccl 8:7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
• Phil 4:4–5Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
• Eccl 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
• Eccl 2:10–11And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
• Matt 6:34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
• Eccl 5:18–20Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
• Dan 12:9–10And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
• Eccl 8:15Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
• Dan 12:13But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
• Job 14:21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
• Deut 28:47Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
• Eccl 9:12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
• Eccl 9:7–9Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
• Deut 26:10–11And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
• Deut 12:18But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
• Deut 12:7And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
• Rom 12:11–12Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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