Ecclesiastes 9:7 Themes and Topics

Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works. Let your clothes be white all the time, and let not oil be lacking on your head.

Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works. Let your clothes be white all the time, and let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun. read more.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself.” And behold, it too was futility. Verse Concepts

Those who recline on beds of ivory
And sprawl on their couches,
And eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall,
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If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. Verse Concepts

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What would this idle babbler wish to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. Verse Concepts

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God. Verse Concepts

Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his

reward.

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So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun. Verse Concepts

Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works. Verse Concepts

Instead, there is gaiety and gladness,
Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
Eating of meat and drinking of wine:
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”
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A joyful heart is good medicine,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
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Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works. Verse Concepts

All the people went away to eat, to drink, to send portions and to celebrate a great festival, because they understood the words which had been made known to them. Verse Concepts

‘From them will proceed thanksgiving
And the voice of those who

celebrate;

And I will multiply them and they will not be diminished;
I will also honor them and they will not be insignificant.
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for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate. Verse Concepts