Ecclesiastes 9:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 saidst thou, She is my sister? so that I took her to be my wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

1 Kings 8:66

On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David his servant, and to Israel his people.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life: and money answereth all things.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour, wherein he laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath even made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out any thing that shall be after him.

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.

Numbers 6:20

and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD; this is holy for the priest, together with the wave breast and heave thigh: and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

Mark 7:29

And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

Luke 11:41

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

John 4:50

Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way.

Acts 10:35

but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him.

Deuteronomy 12:12

and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you.

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.

Ruth 3:7

And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.