Ecclesiastes 9:7

New English Translation

Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.

Cross References

Genesis 12:19

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!”

1 Kings 8:66

On the fifteenth day after the festival started, he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king and then went to their homes, happy and content because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

Feasts are made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many – all that is about to come is obscure.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

I have seen personally what is the only beneficial and appropriate course of action for people: to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all their hard work on earth during the few days of their life which God has given them, for this is their reward.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In times of prosperity be joyful, but in times of adversity consider this: God has made one as well as the other, so that no one can discover what the future holds.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I recommend the enjoyment of life, for there is nothing better on earth for a person to do except to eat, drink, and enjoy life. So joy will accompany him in his toil during the days of his life which God gives him on earth.

Numbers 6:20

then the priest must wave them as a wave offering before the Lord; it is a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the raised offering. After this the Nazirite may drink wine.’

Mark 7:29

Then he said to her, “Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”

Luke 11:41

But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.

John 4:50

Jesus told him, “Go home; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

Acts 10:35

but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

Deuteronomy 12:12

You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).

Deuteronomy 12:7

Both you and your families must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

Ruth 3:7

When Boaz had finished his meal and was feeling satisfied, he lay down to sleep at the far end of the grain heap. Then Ruth crept up quietly, uncovered his legs, and lay down beside him.