Ecclesiastes 3:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ moreover, it is God’s gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor–it is the gift of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Common English Bible

¹³ Moreover, this is the gift of God: that all people should eat, drink, and enjoy the results of their hard work.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For this is a gift from God: when each man eats and drinks, and sees the good results of his labor.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:13 Cross References

Psalm 128:2

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.

Psalm 34:12

Which of you desires life and covets many days to enjoy good?

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 6:2

those to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that they lack nothing of all that they desire, yet God does not enable them to enjoy these things, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous ill.

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has long ago approved what you do.

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.