Ecclesiastes 8:15 Cross References - LITV

¹⁵ Then I praised mirth, because nothing is good for man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be glad. For that shall go with him in his labor for the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

²⁴ Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also saw, that it was from the hand of God.

¹² I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice to do good in his life. ¹³ And also every man that eats and drinks, and sees good in his labor, it is the gift of God.

²² And I have seen that nothing is better than that the man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

¹⁸ See what I have seen: It is good and beautiful to eat and to drink and to see good in all his labor that he labors under the sun, the number of the days of his life which God gives to him, for it is his portion.

⁷ Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God now is pleased with your works. ⁸ Let your garments be white at every time; and let your head lack no ointment. ⁹ Look on life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which He gave you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your share in this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.

³ forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thanksgiving by the believers and those knowing the truth. ⁴ Because every creature of God is good, and nothing to be thrust away, but having been received with thanksgiving;

¹⁷ Charge the rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to set hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, He offering to us richly all things for enjoyment;