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 to do good as long as they live.
• Deut 12:7There 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.
• Eccl 8:15Then 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 10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.
• Eccl 2:24–26There 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.
• Neh 8:10–12Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
• 1 Chr 16:1–3They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
• Eccl 5:18Behold, 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 16:14–15You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
• 1 Chr 29:21–23They 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,
• Gen 4:4–5Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
• 1 Kgs 8:66On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.
• Acts 10:35but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
• Deut 12:12You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
• Mark 7:29He said to her, “For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
• Luke 11:41But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
• Gen 12:19Why 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.”
• Exod 24:8–11Moses 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.”
• John 4:50Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
• 2 Chr 30:23–27The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.

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