Enjoy Life with the One You Love

Ecclesiastes 9

⁷ Go, _k eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

⁸ _l Let your garments be always white. Let not _m oil be lacking on your head.

⁹ Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your _n vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your _o portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. ¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, _p do it with your might, _{1 q} for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

1. Cross References
   Ecclesiastes 2:24
   There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.
   
2. Cross References
   Revelation 3:4
   Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
   
3. Cross References
   Psalms 23:5
   You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
   
4. Cross References
   Ecclesiastes 6:12
   For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
   Ecclesiastes 7:15
   In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.
   
5. Cross References
   Ecclesiastes 2:10
   And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.
   
6. Cross References
   Romans 12:11
   Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
   Colossians 3:23
   Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.
   
7. Cross References
   Ecclesiastes 9:5
   For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
   

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