Ecclesiastes 3:12

Modern English Version

I know that there is nothing better for people than to be glad and do good in their life,

Cross References

Psalm 37:3

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land, and shepherd faithfulness.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink, and make his life see the good in his labor. This I have seen is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I investigated how to cheer up my body with wine, while my heart was still guiding me with wisdom, in order to grasp folly, until I might experience what is good for people to do under heaven during the number of days that they might have life.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than that people take joy in their labor, for that is their reward. Who will bring a person to see what will happen after his life?

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commend enjoyment, because there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat and drink and enjoy life, for enjoyment will go with a person in his toil all the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Isaiah 64:5

You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness, those who remember You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we had sinned; in our sins we remained a long time, and shall we be saved?

Luke 11:41

But give alms from what is within, and behold, all things are clean to you.

Acts 20:35

In all things I have shown you how, working like this, you must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’  ”

Deuteronomy 12:18

Rather you must eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose —you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite that is within your gates—and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake to do.

Deuteronomy 12:7

There you must eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, where the Lord your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 26:11

You shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and your house, you, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner who is among you.

Deuteronomy 28:63

It will be that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the Lord will take pleasure over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing. You will be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.

1 Timothy 6:18

Command that they do good, that they be rich in good works, generous, willing to share,