Ecclesiastes 5:18

Modern English Version

This is what I have observed to be good and pleasing: to eat and drink and see benefit in all one’s labor with which he toils under the sun the few days of his life, which God has given to him, for this is his reward.

Cross References

Psalm 42:8

The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

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 2:10

Everything my eyes wanted, I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any selfish pleasure, for my heart was glad of all my efforts; and this was my reward for all my efforts.

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 6:2

a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God does not give him ability to enjoy these things, because another man enjoys his possessions. This is vanity and a tormenting injustice.

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted your works.

Jeremiah 52:34

For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion all the days of his life until the day of his death.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that you submit yourselves to such people, and to everyone who helps and labors with us.

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.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this world that they not be conceited, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who richly gives us all things to enjoy.