40 Bible Verses about Being Happy And Enjoying Life

And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

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

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil--this is the gift of God.

Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.

So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil--this is God's gift to man.

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.

For "Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.'

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good--do not all go to the one place?

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.

"that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.

Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!"

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

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!

And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.

Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.