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Go your way -- eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
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Joy from Prior Acceptance
Commentators stress that this call to enjoy life is not a command for hedonism, but a permission slip for the righteous. The reason for joy is key: "for God hath already accepted thy works." This means enjoyment isn't a way to earn God's favor, but a response to already having it. This joy springs from the confidence of being in a right relationship with God.
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Ecclesiastes
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Read these six verses together to understand the writer's meaning, and compare (Ecclesiastes 2:1–12).
After the description ([Re…
19th Century
Anglican
Now. —Rather, long ago.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Go your way. You righteous man, as Jarchi paraphrases it; and indeed epicures and voluptuous persons have no need of the …
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