Ecclesiastes 3:22
"Wherefore 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?"
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- Ecclesiastes 2:24
"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. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 3:11
"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 6:12
"For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 10:14
"A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 8:7
"For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?"
Read in chapter → - Philippians 4:4
"Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 11:9
"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."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:10
"And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 28:47
"Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;"
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 12:18
"But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto."
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