Ecclesiastes 3:12

Legacy Standard Bible

I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to do good in one’s lifetime;

Cross References

Psalm 37:3

Trust in Yahweh and do good; Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Be glad, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be merry during the days of young manhood. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the sights of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and have his soul see good in his labor. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I explored with my heart how to stimulate my body with wine—while my heart was guiding me wisely—and how to seize simpleminded folly, until I could see where is this good for the sons of men in what they do under heaven the few days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be glad in his works, for that is his portion. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I laud gladness, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will join with him in his labor throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Isaiah 64:5

You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry; indeed we have sinned— We continued in them a long time— And shall we be saved?

Luke 11:41

But give that which is within as charity, and then all things are clean for you.

Acts 20:35

In everything I showed you that by laboring in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’  ”

Deuteronomy 12:18

But you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God in all that you send forth your hand to do.

Deuteronomy 12:7

There also you and your households shall eat before Yahweh your God, and be glad in all that you send forth your hand to do, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 26:11

and you and the Levite and the sojourner who is among you shall be glad in all the good which Yahweh your God has given you and your household.

Deuteronomy 28:63

And it will be that as Yahweh delighted over you to prosper you and multiply you, so Yahweh will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it.

1 Timothy 6:18

Command them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,