Ecclesiastes 9:7

God's Word

Go, enjoy eating your food, and drink your wine cheerfully, because God has already accepted what you’ve done.

Cross References

Genesis 12:19

Why did you say, ‘She’s my sister’ and allow me to take her for my wife? Here’s your wife! Take her and go!”

1 Kings 8:66

On the eighth day he dismissed the people. They blessed the king and went to their tents. They rejoiced with cheerful hearts for all the blessings the Lord had given his servant David and his people Israel.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

A meal is made for laughter, and wine makes life pleasant, but money is the answer for everything.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Even though people may live for many years, they should enjoy every one of them. But they should also remember there will be many dark days. Everything that is coming is pointless.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

At last I have seen what is good and beautiful: It is to eat and drink and to enjoy the good in all our hard work under the sun during the brief lives God gives us. That is our lot ⌞in life⌟.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

When times are good, be happy. But when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one time as well as the other so that mortals cannot predict their future.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I recommend the enjoyment ⌞of life⌟. People have nothing better to do under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy themselves. This joy will stay with them while they work hard during their brief lives which God has given them under the sun.

Numbers 6:20

The priest will present them as an offering to the Lord. They are holy and belong to the priest, along with the ram’s breast that is presented and the thigh that is given. After that, the Nazirites may drink wine.

Mark 7:29

Jesus said to her, “Because you have said this, go! The demon has left your daughter.”

Luke 11:41

Give what is inside as a gift to the poor, and then everything will be clean  for you.

John 4:50

Jesus told him, “Go home. Your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus told him and left.

Acts 10:35

Rather, whoever respects God and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation.

Deuteronomy 12:12

Enjoy yourselves in the presence of the Lord your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, and the Levites. (The Levites live in your cities because they have no land of their own as you have.)

Deuteronomy 12:7

There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families will eat and enjoy everything you’ve worked for, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

Ruth 3:7

Boaz had eaten and drunk to his heart’s content, so he went and lay at the edge of a pile of grain. Then she went over to him secretly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.