Ecclesiastes 9:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ Go, eat your bread with enjoyment and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has long ago approved what you do.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart [if you are righteous, wise, and in the hands of God], for God has already accepted your works.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

Common English Bible

⁷ Go, eat your food joyfully and drink your wine happily because God has already accepted what you do.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 Cross References

Genesis 12:19

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone.”

1 Kings 8:66

On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their tents joyful and in good spirits because of all the goodness that the Lord had shown to his servant David and to his people Israel.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

Feasts are made for laughter, wine gladdens life, and money meets every need.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Even those who live many years should rejoice in them all, yet let them remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

This is what I have seen to be good: it is fitting to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of the life God gives us, for this is our lot.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity, be joyful, and in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that comes 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.

Numbers 6:20

Then the priest shall elevate them as an elevation offering before the Lord; they are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is elevated and the thigh that is offered. After that the nazirites may drink wine.

Mark 7:29

Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.”

Luke 11:41

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

John 4:50

Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way.

Acts 10:35

but in every people anyone who fears him and practices righteousness is acceptable to him.

Deuteronomy 12:12

And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you together with your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levites who reside in your towns (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).

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.

Ruth 3:7

When Boaz had eaten and drunk and was in a contented mood, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came stealthily and uncovered his feet and lay down.