Ecclesiastes 3:12

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

And I knew that nothing was better to a man, but to be glad, and to do good works in his life.

Cross References

Psalm 37:3

Hope thou in the Lord, and do thou goodness; and inhabit thou the land, and thou shalt be fed with his riches.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Therefore, thou young man, be glad in thy youth, and thine heart be in goodness in the days of thy youth, and go thou in the ways of thine heart, and in the beholding of thine eyes; and know thou, that for all these things God shall bring thee into doom.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Whether it is not better to eat and drink, and to show to his soul [the] goods of his travails? and this thing is of the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I thought in mine heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I should lead over my soul to wisdom, and that I would eschew folly, till I should see, what were profitable to the sons of men; in which deed the number of days of their life under the sun is needful.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I perceived that nothing is better, than that a man be glad in his work, and that this be his part; for who shall bring him, that he know things that shall come after him?

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Therefore I praised gladness, that no good was to a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and to be joyful; and that he should bear away with himself only this of his travail, in the days of his life, which God gave to him under the sun.

Isaiah 64:5

Thou mettest him that is glad, and doeth rightfulness [or rightwiseness]; in thy ways they shall bethink on thee. Lo! thou art wroth, and we sinned; in those sins we were ever, and we shall be saved.

Luke 11:41

Nevertheless that that is over-plus, [or superfluous], give ye alms, and lo! all things be clean to you.

Acts 20:35

All these things I showed to you, for so it behooveth men travailing to receive sick men, and to have mind of the word of the Lord Jesus; for he said, It is more blessful [or more blessed] to give, than to receive.

Deuteronomy 12:18

but thou shalt eat those things before thy Lord God, in the place which thy Lord God choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy womanservant, and the deacon [or Levite] that dwelleth in thy cities; and thou shalt be glad, and thou shalt be fulfilled before thy Lord God in all things to which thou holdest forth thine hand.

Deuteronomy 12:7

And ye and your houses shall eat there in the sight of your Lord God; and ye shall be glad in all things to which ye put the hand, in which your Lord God hath blessed you.

Deuteronomy 26:11

thou shalt eat in all the goods which thy Lord God gave to thee, and to thine house, thou, and the deacon [or Levite], and the comeling that is with thee.

Deuteronomy 28:63

And as the Lord was glad before upon you, and did well to you, and multiplied you; so he shall be glad to lose [or scatter] you, and to destroy you, that ye be taken away from the land, to which thou shalt enter to wield.

1 Timothy 6:18

to do well, to be made rich in good works, lightly to give, to commune,