Bible Verses About Enjoying Life
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for enjoying life, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,961 votes, led by Ecclesiastes 5:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Enjoying Life
Ecclesiastes 5:18265 votes
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Ecclesiastes 2:24248 votes
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Proverbs 17:22238 votes
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
1 Peter 3:10203 votes
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Ecclesiastes 11:9191 votes
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Psalms 16:11152 votes
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
John 16:24152 votes
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
1 Timothy 6:17149 votes
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13130 votes
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
Ecclesiastes 8:15123 votes
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
John 16:33103 votes
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Matthew 6:25-34102 votes
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Luke 1:47102 votes
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
Ecclesiastes 7:14101 votes
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
John 10:1094 votes
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Luke 15:783 votes
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Matthew 11:28-3081 votes
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Psalms 118:2479 votes
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Ecclesiastes 9:9-1071 votes
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Proverbs 21:2068 votes
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
Romans 6:2357 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 12:255 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Colossians 3:1754 votes
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Hebrews 13:554 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
John 14:653 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
What does the Bible say about enjoying life?
Readers most often cite Ecclesiastes 5:18 on the subject of enjoying life. Across 4,961 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 2:24, Proverbs 17:22, 1 Peter 3:10. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.