Ecclesiastes 3:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to get and do good as long as they live;

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹² I know that there’s nothing better for them but to enjoy themselves and do what’s good while they live.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And I realize that there is nothing better than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.

Ecclesiastes 3:12 Cross References

Psalm 37:3

Trust in the Lord and do good; live in the land and enjoy security.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, until I might see what was good for mortals to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than that all should enjoy their work, for that is their lot; who can bring them to see what will be after them?

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commend enjoyment, for there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat and drink and enjoy themselves, for this will go with them in their toil through the days of life that God gives them under the sun.

Isaiah 64:5

You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed.

Luke 11:41

So give as alms those things that are within and then everything will be clean for you.

Acts 20:35

In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

Deuteronomy 12:18

these you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God at the place that the Lord your God will choose, you together with your son and your daughter, your male and female slaves, and the Levites resident in your towns, rejoicing in the presence of the Lord your God in all your undertakings.

Deuteronomy 12:7

And you shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your households together, rejoicing in all the undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 26:11

Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house.

Deuteronomy 28:63

And just as the Lord took delight in making you prosperous and numerous, so the Lord will take delight in bringing you to ruin and destruction; you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to possess.

1 Timothy 6:18

They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous, and ready to share,