Ecclesiastes 2:24

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.

Cross References (15)

  • Ecclesiastes 3:22 (17)

    I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring hi

  • Ecclesiastes 8:15 (13)

    So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and

  • 1 Timothy 6:17 (12)

    Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealt

  • Ecclesiastes 3:12–13 (9)

    I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,

  • Ecclesiastes 5:18–19 (9)

    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 un

  • Ecclesiastes 9:7–9 (8)

    Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

  • 1 Corinthians 15:32 (6)

    If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink

  • Deuteronomy 12:18 (4)

    Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your son

  • Ecclesiastes 6:2 (3)

    God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enj

  • Ecclesiastes 11:9–10 (3)

    Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of you

  • Malachi 2:2 (3)

    If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse

  • Deuteronomy 12:12 (3)

    And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the

  • Acts 14:17 (3)

    Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filli

  • Luke 12:19–20 (2)

    Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merr

  • Nehemiah 8:10 (2)

    Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing