Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.
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Genesis 1:4
And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
Job 31:25
If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
Psalms 4:6
There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
Ecclesiastes 2:13
Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.
Ecclesiastes 3:6
A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
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Genesis 43:34
And Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent five times as much to Benjamin as to any of the others. And they took wine freely with him.
Joshua 5:6
For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Judges 16:25
Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.
Judges 19:6
So seating themselves they had food and drink, the two of them together; and the girl's father said to the man, If it is your pleasure, take your rest here tonight, and let your heart be glad.
Judges 19:9
And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.
Judges 19:22
While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.
Ruth 3:7
Now when Boaz had taken meat and drink, and his heart was glad, he went to take his rest at the end of the mass of grain; then she came softly and, uncovering his feet, went to rest.
2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.
Esther 1:10
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven unsexed servants who were waiting before Ahasuerus the king,
Psalms 104:15
And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.
Ephesians 5:18
And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
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Exodus 24:11
And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink.
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;
Deuteronomy 16:14
You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.
Deuteronomy 16:15
Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.
Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands;
Deuteronomy 16:17
Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 26:10
So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:
Deuteronomy 26:11
And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy.
1 Chronicles 29:22
And with great joy they made a feast before the Lord that day. And they made Solomon, the son of David, king a second time, putting the holy oil on him to make him holy to the Lord as ruler, and on Zadok as priest.
2 Chronicles 7:10
And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.
Nehemiah 8:12
And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.
Philippians 4:4
Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.
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Deuteronomy 28:30
You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.
Deuteronomy 28:31
Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.
Deuteronomy 28:48
For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.
Judges 6:3
And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;
Judges 6:4
And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.
Judges 6:5
For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.
Judges 6:6
And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.
1 Samuel 30:17
And David went on fighting them from evening till the evening of the day after; and not one of them got away but only four hundred young men who went in flight on camels.
Psalms 128:2
You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
Isaiah 65:21
And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.
Isaiah 65:22
They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
Isaiah 65:23
Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.
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2 Samuel 9:7
And David said to him, Have no fear: for truly I will be good to you, because of your father Jonathan, and I will give back to you all the land which was Saul's; and you will have a place at my table at all times.
2 Samuel 9:8
And he went down on his face before the king, and said, What is your servant, for you to take note of a dead dog such as I am?
2 Samuel 9:9
Then the king sent for Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, All the property of Saul and of his family I have given to your master's son.
2 Samuel 9:10
And you and your sons and your servants are to take care of the land for him, and get in the fruit of it, so that your master's son may have food: but Mephibosheth, your master's son, will have a place at my table at all times. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
Esther 8:2
And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther put Mordecai over the family of Haman.
Psalms 37:34
Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.
Daniel 2:48
Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon.
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1 Kings 18:46
And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he made himself strong, and went running before Ahab till they came to Jezreel.
1 Kings 20:33
Now the men took it as a sign, and quickly took up his words; and they said, Ben-hadad is your brother. Then he said, Go and get him. So Ben-hadad came out to him and he made him get up into his carriage.
2 Kings 3:15
But now, get me a player of music, and it will come about that while the man is playing, the hand of the Lord will come on me and I will give you the word of the Lord: and they got a player of music, and while the man was playing, the hand of the Lord was on him.
Isaiah 8:11
For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,
Ezekiel 33:22
Now the hand of the Lord had been on me in the evening, before the man who had got away came to me; and he made my mouth open, ready for his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was open and I was no longer without voice.
Ezekiel 40:1
In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.
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1 Kings 4:21
And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.
1 Kings 4:22
And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
1 Kings 4:23
Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
2 Chronicles 35:7
And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.
2 Chronicles 35:8
And his captains freely gave an offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:12
And they took away the burned offerings, so that they might give them to be offered to the Lord for the divisions of the families of the people, as it is recorded in the book of Moses. And they did the same with the oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:13
And the Passover lamb was cooked over the fire, as it says in the law; and the holy offerings were cooked in pots and basins and vessels, and taken quickly to all the people.
2 Chronicles 35:14
And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.
2 Chronicles 35:15
And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.
2 Chronicles 35:16
So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.
Isaiah 33:16
He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
Luke 11:41
But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.
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2 Chronicles 35:17
And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.
2 Chronicles 35:18
No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
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Esther 2:21
In those days, while Mordecai was seated at the king's doorway, two of the king's servants, Bigthan and Teresh, keepers of the door, being angry, were looking for a chance to make an attack on King Ahasuerus.
Isaiah 56:12
Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.
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Job 33:17
In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;
Job 33:20
He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;
Psalms 107:17
Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;
Psalms 107:18
They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.
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Deuteronomy 8:18
But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.
1 Kings 3:13
And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal.
Psalms 84:11
The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
Matthew 5:5
Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.
Mark 10:29
Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,
Mark 10:30
Who will not get a hundred times as much now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though with great troubles; and, in the world to come, eternal life.
Romans 8:28
And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.
1 Timothy 4:3
Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.
1 Timothy 4:4
Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
1 Timothy 4:8
For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
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Ecclesiastes 1:11
There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.
Ecclesiastes 1:15
That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:7
Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
Ecclesiastes 7:16
Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
Ecclesiastes 8:3
Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.
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Job 21:16
Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)
Psalms 49:18
Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,
Psalms 49:19
He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 9:1
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.
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Ecclesiastes 5:4
When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.
Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
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1 Kings 1:41
And it came to the ears of Adonijah and all the guests who were with him, when their meal was ended. And Joab, hearing the sound of the horn, said, What is the reason of this noise as if the town was worked up?
1 Kings 9:19
And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.
2 Chronicles 8:6
And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 1:12
I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
Ecclesiastes 2:12
And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!
Ecclesiastes 3:14
I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 5:14
And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 9:4
For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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Ecclesiastes 4:9
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.
Ecclesiastes 4:13
A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
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Isaiah 30:1
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
Hosea 8:4
They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.
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2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,
1 Chronicles 12:39
For three days they were there with David, feasting at his table, for their brothers had made ready food for them.
Job 1:18
And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,
Psalms 72:3
May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.
Psalms 72:4
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
Psalms 72:5
May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations.
Psalms 72:6
May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.
Psalms 72:7
In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.
Micah 4:4
But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.
Zechariah 3:10
In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another's guests under the vine and under the fig-tree.
Zechariah 9:15
The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar.
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Deuteronomy 30:15
See, I have put before you today, life and good, and death and evil;
Romans 12:11
Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;
Romans 12:12
Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,
Philippians 4:5
Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.
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Philippians 4:11
But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.
Philippians 4:12
It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need.
Philippians 4:13
I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.
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