Ecclesiastes 3:13

Good News Translation

All of us should eat and drink and enjoy what we have worked for. It is God's gift.

Cross References

Psalm 128:2

Your work will provide for your needs; you will be happy and prosperous.

Psalm 34:12

Would you like to enjoy life? Do you want long life and happiness?

Ecclesiastes 2:24

The best thing we can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have earned. And yet, I realized that even this comes from God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

Driven on by my desire for wisdom, I decided to cheer myself up with wine and have a good time. I thought that this might be the best way people can spend their short lives on earth.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

God will give us wealth, honor, and property, yes, everything we want, but then will not let us enjoy it. Some stranger will enjoy it instead. It is useless, and it just isn't right.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I am convinced that we should enjoy ourselves, because the only pleasure we have in this life is eating and drinking and enjoying ourselves. We can at least do this as we labor during the life that God has given us in this world.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go ahead—eat your food and be happy; drink your wine and be cheerful. It's all right with God.

Deuteronomy 12:7

There, in the presence of the Lord your God, who has blessed you, you and your families will eat and enjoy the good things that you have worked for.

Deuteronomy 26:11

Be grateful for the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family; and let the Levites and the foreigners who live among you join in the celebration.