Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 37:3Confide in Jehovah, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on faithfulness;
Ecclesiastes 3:22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes 9:7Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
Isaiah 64:5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved.
Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring [we] ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
1 Thessalonians 5:15See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:12-16
Mutability of Human Affairs. 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. 12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. 13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. 14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken… Read the whole commentary →