40 Bible Verses about Being Happy And Enjoying Life

Therefore I commended joy because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry, for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. I also have seen that this is from the hand of God.

I have learned that there is nothing better for them, but to rejoice and to do good in his life.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou dost love all the days which thou art to live in this lake of vanity, which are given unto thee; all the days of thy vanity under the sun: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour in which thou dost work under the sun.

To such a one, God will remove the concerns common to others, for God shall answer him with joy from his heart.

Go, eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a joyful heart that thy works might be acceptable unto God.

Likewise, unto every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, he has also given him power to eat thereof and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

Behold therefore the good which I have seen: that good is to eat and to drink and to enjoy of the good of all his labour that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.

Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

In the day of good enjoy that which is good, but in the day of adversity open your eyes and learn: God also has made the one (the day of adversity) before the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labour; it is the gift of God.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

For he that desires to love life and see the good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile;

Lamed Who is the man that desires life and loves many days that he may see good?

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Thy fountain shall be blessed; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

For who can eat, or who can care for himself better than I?

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

For though the other should live a thousand years twice and has not enjoyed good; both shall surely go to the same place.

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of the life of his vanity which he causes to be as a shadow? for who shall teach the man what shall be after him under the sun?

but if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity.

A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honour so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but the strangers eat it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

that it may be well with thee, and thou may live long on the earth.

When thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Thy garments shall always be white, and thy head shall never lack ointment.

Then he said unto them, Go, eat the fat, and drink sweet wine, and send portions unto those who have nothing prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord, and not sad; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of the trees shall be the days of my people, and my elect shall perpetuate the work of their hands.

being filled with fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.

I proposed in my heart to regale my flesh with wine and that my heart would walk in wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast stored up?

Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; in thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children and peace upon Israel.

And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion of all my labour.

The banquet is made for pleasure, and wine makes merry; but money answers all things.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy good things; and, behold, this also is vanity.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth while the evil days do not come nor the years draw near when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

If a man begets a hundred sons and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his soul is not filled with good and also that he have no burial; I say that an aborted birth is better than he.

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, Rejoice.