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Ecclesiastes 9:7

The New Testament’s use of Ecclesiastes

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

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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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

John 2:1-11 ?

The sapiential exhortation to drink wine with a merry heart as God's gift frames wine as a sign of divine favor and joy, the affective register of Cana's abundance. Volume is low and the link diffuse; listed as a faint wisdom-tradition resonance.

Low confidence
Rom 14:13-23 ?

The blessing 'Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves' (14:22) faintly resonates with the Qoheleth beatitude on eating one's bread and drinking one's wine with a clear conscience before God (Ecclesiastes 9:7, 'God has already approved your works'). Thematic resonance of approved, untroubled enjoyment.

Low confidence