Ecclesiastes 9:7

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 12:19

For what reason did you claim her to be your sister, so that I would take her to me as a wife? Now therefore, behold your mate, receive her and go."

1 Kings 8:66

And on the eighth day, he dismissed the people. And blessing the king, they set out for their tents, rejoicing and cheerful in heart over all the good things that the Lord had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

While laughing, they make bread and wine, so that the living may feast. And all things are obedient to money.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

If a man lives for many years, and if he has rejoiced in all of these, he must remember the many days of the dark times, which, when they will have arrived, will accuse the past of vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

And this is a gift from God: that every man to whom God has given wealth and resources, and to whom he has granted the ability to consume these, may enjoy his portion, and may find joy in his labors.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

Consider the works of God, that no one is able to correct whomever he has despised.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

And so, I praised rejoicing, because there was no good for a man under the sun, except to eat and drink, and to be cheerful, and because he may take nothing with him from his labor in the days of his life, which God has given to him under the sun.

Numbers 6:20

And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the sight of the Lord. And having been sanctified, these shall be for the priest, as also the breast, which was ordered to be separated, and the leg. After this, the Nazarite is able to drink wine.

Mark 7:29

And he said to her, "Because of this saying, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter."

Luke 11:41

Yet truly, give what is above as alms, and behold, all things are clean for you.

John 4:50

Jesus said to him, "Go, your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and so he went away.

Acts 10:35

But within every nation, whoever fears him and works justice is acceptable to him.

Deuteronomy 12:12

In that place, you shall feast before the Lord your God: you, and your sons and daughters, your men and women servants, as well as the Levite who dwells in your cities. For he has no other portion or possession among you.

Deuteronomy 12:7

And you shall eat it there, in the sight of the Lord your God. And you shall rejoice in all the things to which you shall set your hand: you and your household, which the Lord your God has blessed for you.

Ruth 3:7

And when Boaz had finished eating and drinking, and he was merry, and he had gone to sleep by the pile of sheaves, she approached secretly, and, lifting the covering near his feet, she laid herself down.