Bible Questions and Answer

"Eat, drink and be merry" comes from the Bible, and it appears in more than one place. Ecclesiastes 8:15 says, "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry," seeing simple enjoyment of life as a gift from God. In Jesus' parable of the rich fool in Luke 12, a wealthy farmer planned to build bigger barns and said to himself, "Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." But God said to him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you." Jesus warned against storing up things for yourself while not being "rich toward God." Isaiah 22:13 describes people partying while their city is in danger, saying, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die," and Paul quotes this in 1 Corinthians 15, saying that would make sense only if there were no resurrection. The popular saying today usually combines these, as "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die."