Ecclesiastes 3:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Ecclesiastes 3:12 Cross References

Psalm 37:3

Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land, and follow after faithfulness.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him back to see what shall be after him?

1 Timothy 6:18

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

Acts 20:35

In all things I gave you an example, how that so labouring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Luke 11:41

Howbeit give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean unto you.

Isaiah 64:5

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time, and shall we be saved?

Deuteronomy 28:63

And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

Deuteronomy 12:7

and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

Deuteronomy 12:18

but thou shalt eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

Deuteronomy 26:11

and thou shalt rejoice in all the good which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is in the midst of thee.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched in mine heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, mine heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him in his labour all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement.