Ecclesiastes 9:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

Cross References

Genesis 12:19

Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.

1 Kings 8:66

And on the eighth day he sent the people away, and, blessing the king, they went to their tents full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David his servant and to Israel his people.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

Numbers 6:20

Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.

Mark 7:29

And she went away to her house, and saw the child on the bed, and the evil spirit gone out.

Luke 11:41

But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.

John 4:50

And Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away.

Acts 10:35

But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

Deuteronomy 12:12

And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.

Deuteronomy 12:7

There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

Ruth 3:7

Now when Boaz had taken meat and drink, and his heart was glad, he went to take his rest at the end of the mass of grain; then she came softly and, uncovering his feet, went to rest.