Cross references
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
Ecclesiastes 9:7 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 3:12–13 (14 votes) and Deuteronomy 12:7 (11 votes). 36 other verses point back to it. It links with 23 other books, from Genesis 4 to 1 Corinthians 7.
Which verses does Ecclesiastes 9:7 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ecclesiastes 3:12–1314 votes
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live, and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labor—this is the gift of God.
- Deuteronomy 12:711 votes
There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
- Ecclesiastes 10:1911 votes
A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
- Ecclesiastes 8:1510 votes
So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:24–269 votes
Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God. For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment? …
- Nehemiah 8:10–128 votes
Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve.” …
- 1 Chronicles 16:1–36 votes
So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they presented burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD. …
- Ecclesiastes 5:186 votes
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
- Deuteronomy 16:14–155 votes
And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you. For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.
- 1 Chronicles 29:21–234 votes
The next day they offered sacrifices and presented burnt offerings to the LORD: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel. That day they ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD. Then, for a second time, they designated David’s son Solomon as king, anointing him before the LORD as ruler, and Zadok as the priest. …
- Genesis 4:4–53 votes
- Exodus 24:8–113 votes
- Deuteronomy 12:123 votes
- 1 Kings 8:663 votes
- Luke 11:413 votes
- John 4:503 votes
- Acts 10:353 votes
- Genesis 12:192 votes
- 2 Chronicles 30:23–272 votes
- Mark 7:292 votes
Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 9:7?
The 10 strongest of 36.