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Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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Genesis 3:12
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Job 24:23
God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

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Genesis 26:8
When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

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Deuteronomy 12:7
There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12:12
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Deuteronomy 26:10
Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 26:11
You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.

Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Acts 2:46
Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

Acts 14:17
Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

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Deuteronomy 17:17
He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

2 Samuel 5:13
David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.

1 Kings 11:3
He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.

1 Chronicles 3:1
Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;

1 Chronicles 3:2
the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

1 Chronicles 3:3
the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:

1 Chronicles 3:4
six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem;

1 Chronicles 14:3
David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

Ecclesiastes 7:27
“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation

Ecclesiastes 7:29
Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”

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Judges 19:6
So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”

Judges 19:9
When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”

Ruth 3:7
When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

1 Kings 16:7
Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.

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1 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

1 Kings 4:21
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,

1 Kings 4:23
ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

2 Chronicles 35:7
Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance.

2 Chronicles 35:8
His princes gave a free will offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.

2 Chronicles 35:12
They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle.

2 Chronicles 35:13
They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.

2 Chronicles 35:14
Afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

2 Chronicles 35:15
The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate. They didn’t need to depart from their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

2 Chronicles 35:16
So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on Yahweh’s altar, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

2 Chronicles 35:17
The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

2 Chronicles 35:18
There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept—with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Psalms 128:2
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Ecclesiastes 10:17
Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

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Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Psalms 37:13
The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Jeremiah 29:32
therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says Yahweh, “because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.” ’ ”

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Psalms 89:49
Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

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Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

Luke 8:14
What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to maturity.

Luke 21:34
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

1 Corinthians 6:3
Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

1 Corinthians 6:4
If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

1 Corinthians 15:19
If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

1 Corinthians 15:32
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

Psalms 49:10
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.

Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

Ecclesiastes 9:6
Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

Ecclesiastes 6:6
Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

Ecclesiastes 7:15
All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
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 pleasure in them;”

Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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Ecclesiastes 9:17
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

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Isaiah 33:16
he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

Jeremiah 22:15
“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

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Deuteronomy 28:63
It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.

Psalms 37:3
Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Isaiah 64:5
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

Acts 20:35
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Romans 12:11
not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,

Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

Philippians 4:6
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:16
Always rejoice.

1 Timothy 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

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Proverbs 5:15
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

Malachi 2:16
One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.

Matthew 19:4
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Matthew 19:5
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

Matthew 19:8
He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Ephesians 5:30
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

Ephesians 5:31
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 18:14
A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

Romans 5:2
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 5:3
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

Romans 5:4
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

Romans 5:5
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

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Luke 20:35
But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

1 Corinthians 7:28
But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:29
But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Philippians 4:9
Do the things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

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