Ecclesiastes 3:13

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:7

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

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.

Psalm 128:2

Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.

Deuteronomy 12:7

And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.

Deuteronomy 26:11

And thou shalt feast in all the good things which the Lord thy God hath given thee, and thy house; thou and the Levite, and the stranger that is with thee.

Psalm 34:12

They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.