Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread and drink your wine with joy, for God has already approved your works. Received in faith, ordinary life is to be enjoyed as God's accepted gift.

Cross-references · 20

• Eccl 3:12–13I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,
• 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.
• 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.
• Eccl 10:19A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
• Eccl 2:24–26Nothing 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.
• Neh 8:10–12Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
• 1 Chr 16:1–3So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they presented burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
• Eccl 5:18Here 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.
• Deut 16:14–15And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
• 1 Chr 29:21–23The next day they offered sacrifices and presented burnt offerings to the LORD: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.
• Gen 4:4–5while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
• 1 Kgs 8:66On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
• Acts 10:35but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.
• Deut 12:12And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
• Mark 7:29Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”
• Luke 11:41But give as alms the things that are within you, and you will see that everything is clean for you.
• Gen 12:19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
• Exod 24:8–11So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
• John 4:50“Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.
• 2 Chr 30:23–27The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.

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