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Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink, and show himself some good in his trouble. This too I have seen, that it is from the hand of God.
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Ecclesiastes 3:11-12
He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without the possibility that mankind will find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime;
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Ecclesiastes 8:7
If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?
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Ecclesiastes 10:14
Yet the fool multiplies words. No person knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?
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Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for a person during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a person what will happen after him under the sun?
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Philippians 4:4-5
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near.
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Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.
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Ecclesiastes 5:18-20
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink, and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he labors under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.Furthermore, as for every person to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also given him the opportunity to enjoy them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.For he will not often call to mind the years of his life, because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart.
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Deuteronomy 26:10-11
And now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground which You, Lord have given me.’ Then you shall set it before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God;and you, the Levite, and the stranger who is among you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given you and your household.
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Job 14:21
His sons achieve honor, but he does not know it; Or they become insignificant, and he does not perceive it.
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Matthew 6:34
“ So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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Ecclesiastes 9:12
For indeed, a person does not know his time: like fish that are caught in a treacherous net and birds caught in a snare, so the sons of mankind are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.
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Ecclesiastes 9:7-9
Go then, eat your bread in happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.See that your clothes are white all the time, and that there is no lack of oil on your head.Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your futile life which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your futility; for this is your reward in life and in your work which you have labored under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
All that my eyes desired, I did not refuse them. I did not restrain my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor; and this was my reward for all my labor.So I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold, all was futility and striving after wind, and there was no benefit under the sun.
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Deuteronomy 12:7
There you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
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Daniel 12:13
But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will rest and rise for your allotted portion at the end of the age.”
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Deuteronomy 12:18
But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all your undertakings.
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Romans 12:11-12
not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer,
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Ecclesiastes 8:15
So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a person under the sun except to eat, drink, and be joyful, and this will stand by him in his labor throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
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Daniel 12:9-10
And he said,“ Go your way, Daniel, for these words will be kept secret and sealed up until the end time.Many will be purged, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.
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Deuteronomy 28:47
“ Since you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, in gratitude for the abundance of all things,