Ecclesiastes 3:12 - Revised Standard Version

¹² I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to get and do good as long as they live;

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

Common English Bible

¹² I know that there’s nothing better for them but to enjoy themselves and do what’s good while they live.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And I realize that there is nothing better than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.

Ecclesiastes 3:12 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 37:3

Trust in the Lord, and do good; so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot; who can bring him to see what 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.

Isaiah 64:5

Thou meetest him that joyfully works righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou wast angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?

Luke 11:41

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

Acts 20:35

In all things I have shown you that by so toiling one must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

Deuteronomy 12:18

but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, and the Levite who is within your towns; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake.

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.

Deuteronomy 26:11

and you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.

Deuteronomy 28:63

And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you; and you shall be plucked off the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

1 Timothy 6:18

They are to do good, to be rich in good deeds, liberal and generous,