Thematic Bible: Sought by the epicureans as the chief aim of life

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.”
Verse Concepts

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,
Verse Concepts

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.

Verse Concepts

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.”
Verse Concepts

Thematic Bible: Sought by the epicureans as the chief aim of life

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Thematic Bible: Sought by the epicureans as the chief aim of life

Thematic Bible

Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Sought by the epicureans as the chief aim of life

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