Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works. Treasury of Scripture go Genesis 12:19 Why said you, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold your wife, take her, and go your way. Mark 7:29 And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the devil is gone out of your daughter. John 4:50 Jesus said to him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken to him, and he went his way. eat Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 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 labor... Ecclesiastes 3:12,13 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life... Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink... Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry... Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers all things. Deuteronomy 12:7,12 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households... Deuteronomy 16:14,15 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite... 1 Kings 8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king... 1 Chronicles 16:1-3 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it... 1 Chronicles 29:21-23 And they sacrificed sacrifices to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings to the LORD, on the morrow after that day... 2 Chronicles 30:23-27 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness... Nehemiah 8:10-12 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared... for Genesis 4:4,5 And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering... Exodus 24:8-11 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant... Luke 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all things are clean to you. Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that fears him, and works righteousness, is accepted with him.
Context Enjoy Your Portion in This Life
7Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works. 8Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment. 9Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you take under the sun. 10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go. 11I 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 happens to them all. 12For man also knows not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.
Darby Bible Translation
Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
King James Bible
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Young's Literal Translation
Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.
|
    |