Ecclesiastes 9:7

New International Version

Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:19

A feast is made for laughter, wine makes life merry, and money is the answer for everything.

Deuteronomy 12:7

There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.

Acts 10:35

but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.

1 Kings 8:66

On the following day he sent the people away. They blessed the king and then went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

Deuteronomy 12:12

And there rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance of their own.

John 4:50

“Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.” The man took Jesus at his word and departed.

Luke 11:41

But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.

Mark 7:29

Then he told her, “For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.”

Genesis 12:19

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

Numbers 6:20

The priest shall then wave these before the Lord as a wave offering; they are holy and belong to the priest, together with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all. But let them remember the days of darkness, for there will be many. Everything to come is meaningless.

Ruth 3:7

When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down.