Biblical Concept: Enjoy
Findings:
Resonance enjoyment by creation.
Lack of enjoyment without orientation to God.
Get oriented to God and enjoy life.
The relationship between speech and enjoyment.
Relationship: A wife to love, enjoying life, a reward in life.
Moses postponed enjoyment.
Peace is enjoyable.
Success is enjoyable.
Like-minded spiritual company is enjoyable.
Fatalistic enjoyment without God.
Millennial enjoyment restoration for Israel.
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NAS Leviticus 26:34
'Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while
you are in your enemies' land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
(Resonance enjoyment of creation.) (See
Biblical Concept: Resonance of Creation.)
NAS 2 Kings 14:10
"You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Enjoy
your glory and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you,
even you, should fall, and Judah with you?" (Israel’s King Jehoash to Judah’s King Amaziah: “Enjoy your glory and stay at home.”)
NAS Job 20:18 "He
returns what he has attained And cannot swallow it; As to the riches of
his trading, He cannot even enjoy them. (Zophar’s words. Here is what God thought of Zophar: Job
42:7-10 7 And
it came about after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said
to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your
two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job
has. 8 "Now therefore,
take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and
offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you.
For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is
right, as My servant Job has." 9
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD told them; and
the LORD accepted Job. 10 And
the LORD restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the
LORD increased all that Job had twofold.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 2:1 I
said to myself, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy
yourself." And behold, it too was futility. (Lack of enjoyment without
orientation to God. See 2:24-26, Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 24 There is nothing better for a
man than to eat and drink and tell
himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen, that it is from the hand
of God. 25 For who can eat
and who can have enjoyment without Him? 26
For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and
joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so
that he may give to one who is good in God's sight. This too is vanity and
striving after wind.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 5:18
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy
oneself in all one's labor in which he toils under the sun during the
few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward. (Get
oriented to God and enjoy life.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 6:6
"Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not enjoy
good things-- do not all go to one place?" (Lack of enjoyment without
orientation to God.) (Get oriented to God and enjoy life.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 9:9
Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life
which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life, and
in your toil in which you have labored under the sun. (Relationship: A wife to
love, enjoying life, a reward in life.) (Get oriented to God and enjoy life.)
NAS Jeremiah 31:5
"Again you shall plant vineyards On the hills of Samaria; The planters
shall plant And shall enjoy them. (Millennial enjoyment restoration for Israel.)
NAS Mark 6:20 for Herod
was afraid of John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him
safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed; but he used to enjoy listening
to him. (Compare: Ezekiel 33:32-33 32 "And behold, you are to
them like a sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an
instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not practice them. 33 "So when it comes to
pass-- as surely it will-- then they will know that a prophet has been in their
midst.")
NAS 1 Timothy 6:17
Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix
their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with
all things to enjoy. (Get oriented to God and enjoy life.)
NAS Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy
the passing pleasures of sin; (Moses postponed enjoyment. See 11:26.)
NAS 2 Chronicles 36:21
to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had
enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until
seventy years were complete. (Resonance of creation? See Biblical Concept: Resonance of Creation.)
NAS Daniel 6:28 So this
Daniel enjoyed success in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the
Persian. (Success is enjoyable.) (Sometimes stating the obvious is enjoyable!)
NAS Mark 12:37
"David himself calls Him 'Lord'; and so in what sense is He his
son?" And the great crowd enjoyed listening to Him. (Compare: Ezekiel 33:32-33 32 "And behold, you are to
them like a sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an
instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not practice them. 33 "So when it comes to
pass-- as surely it will-- then they will know that a prophet has been in their
midst.")
NAS Acts 9:31 So the
church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built
up; and, going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy
Spirit, it continued to increase. (Peace is enjoyable.) (Sometimes stating the
obvious is enjoyable!)
NAS Romans 15:24
whenever I go to Spain-- for I hope to see you in passing, and to be helped on
my way there by you, when I have first enjoyed your company for a while—
(Like-minded spiritual company is enjoyable.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 2:25
For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? (Get oriented to God
and enjoy life.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 10:19 Men
prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the
answer to everything. (Fatalistic enjoyment without God.)
NAS Proverbs 13:2 From
the fruit of a man's mouth he enjoys good, But the desire of the treacherous is
violence. (The relationship between
speech and enjoyment.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 6:2 a
man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks
nothing of all that he desires, but God has not empowered him to eat from them,
for a foreigner enjoys them. This is vanity and a severe affliction. (Get
oriented to God and enjoy life.)