Ecclesiastes 3:12
I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.
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Ecclesiastes 3:12
I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.
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Genesis 1:1
At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
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 28:47
Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
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.
Isaiah 65:14
My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.
Luke 11:41
But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.
Acts 2:46
And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,
Acts 2:47
Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Thessalonians 5:16
Have joy at all times.
1 Timothy 6:19
Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.
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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.
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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Genesis 49:14
Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks:
Genesis 49:15
And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.
2 Samuel 20:19
Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?
Proverbs 24:21
My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:
Ecclesiastes 8:2
I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
Ecclesiastes 8:4
The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;
1 Timothy 2:2
For kings and all those in authority; so that we may have a calm and quiet life in all fear of God and serious behaviour.
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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.
Leviticus 23:40
On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days.
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 16:11
Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.
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.
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.
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Deuteronomy 28:63
And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.
Philippians 4:6
Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:8
For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
Philippians 4:9
The things which came to you by my teaching and preaching, and which you saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.
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2 Chronicles 24:16
And they put him into his last resting-place in the town of David, among the kings, because he had done good in Israel for God and for his house.
Luke 6:33
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners do the same.
Luke 6:34
And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.
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Job 31:25
If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
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,
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Job 29:12
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
Job 29:17
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
Psalms 40:8
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
Psalms 112:1
Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.
Psalms 119:16
I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
Psalms 119:92
If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.
Proverbs 21:15
It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.
John 4:34
Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
Romans 7:22
In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
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Ecclesiastes 2:10
And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
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Psalms 102:13
You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 3:2
A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;
Ecclesiastes 3:3
A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;
Ecclesiastes 3:4
A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
Ecclesiastes 3:5
A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;
Ecclesiastes 3:6
A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;
Ecclesiastes 3:7
A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;
Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.
John 2:4
Jesus said to her, Woman, this is not your business; my time is still to come.
John 7:6
Jesus said to them, My time is still to come, but any time is good for you.
John 7:8
Go you up to the feast: I am not going up now to the feast because my time has not fully come.
John 7:30
Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.
John 8:20
Jesus said these words in the place where the offerings were stored, while he was teaching in the Temple: but no man took him because his time was still to come.
John 13:1
Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.
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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 9:10
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
Acts 10:38
About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.
Acts 14:17
But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
Acts 20:35
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
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,
Galatians 6:9
And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.
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:
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Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
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 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
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 7:18
It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
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 8:14
There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.
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John 17:1
Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:
Acts 1:7
And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.
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Psalms 37:27
Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.
Matthew 5:43
You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:
Mark 3:4
And he said to them, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to put to death? But they said nothing.
Romans 12:18
As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.
Titus 3:8
This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;
Hebrews 12:14
Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;
1 Peter 3:11
And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.
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