Ecclesiastes 9:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.

Cross References

Genesis 12:19

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone.”

1 Kings 8:66

On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

For 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 comes is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life which God has given him, for this is his lot.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

And I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.

Numbers 6:20

and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord; they are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

Mark 7:29

And he said to her, “For this saying you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”

Luke 11:41

But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, everything is clean for you.

John 4:50

Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way.

Acts 10:35

but in every nation any one who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Deuteronomy 12:12

And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.

Deuteronomy 12:7

and there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

Ruth 3:7

And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and lay down.