Ecclesiastes 3:13

Tree of Life Version

Also when anyone eats and drinks, and finds satisfaction in all of his labor, it is the gift of God.

Cross References

Psalm 128:2

for you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be blessed and it will be good for you.

Psalm 34:12

Come, children, listen to me: I will teach you the fear of Adonai.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their labor. This too, I perceived, is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I thought deeply about how to cheer my flesh with wine—letting my heart guide me with wisdom—and how to grasp folly, so that I could see what was worthwhile for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

God gives a man riches, wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to eat from it—instead a foreigner will eat it. This is fruitless—an agonizing illness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I recommend enjoyment, because there is nothing better for humanity under the sun except to eat, drink and enjoy it. So this joy will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go! Eat your bread with gladness and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted your deeds.

Deuteronomy 12:7

There you and your households will eat before Adonai your God and rejoice in every undertaking of your hand, as Adonai your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 26:11

You will rejoice in all the good that Adonai your God has given to you and to your house—you, the Levite, and the outsider in your midst.