Bible Cross References
And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 2:24
Is it not good for a man to eat and drink and make his soul behold the good in his labor. This also, I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20
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Behold that which I have seen: It is good and right for one to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he labors under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.
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Also every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.
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For he does not excessively dwell on the days of his life, because God keeps him busy in the joy of his heart.
Ecclesiastes 6:2
A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner devours it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
Deuteronomy 28:30
You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not begin to eat.
Deuteronomy 28:31
Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them.
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things,
Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom Jehovah will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you.
Judges 6:3-6
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So it was that when Israel had sown, the Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the sons of the East would come up against them.
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And they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey.
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For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as the abundance of locusts; both they and their camels were without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it.
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And Israel was brought exceedingly low before Midian, and the children of Israel cried out unto Jehovah.
Psalm 128:2
You shall eat the labor of your hands, you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
Isaiah 65:21-23
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And they shall build houses and live in them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
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They shall not build, and another live in them; they shall not plant, and another eat. For as the days of a tree are the days of My people, and My elect shall grow old enjoying the work of their hands.
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They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for terror. For they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.