40 Bible Verses about Being Happy And Enjoying Life
Most Relevant Verses
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.
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.
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime;
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.
For he will not often consider the years of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart.
Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.
Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.
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.
I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?
In the day of prosperity be happy,
But in the day of adversity consider—
God has made the one as well as the other
So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.
moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God.
Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.
For,
“The one who desires life, to love and see good days,
Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’
Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not enjoy good things—do not all go to one place?”
For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.
a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner enjoys them. This is vanity and a severe affliction.
When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands,
You will be happy and it will be well with you.
Let your clothes be white all the time, and let not oil be lacking on your head.
Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
“They will not build and another inhabit,
They will not plant and another eat;
For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.
having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
“Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again
Before I depart and am no more.”
I explored with my mind how to stimulate my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven the few years of their lives.
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’
You will make known to me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor.
Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything.
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself.” And behold, it too was futility.
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no delight in them”;
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.
