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Rejoice in Your Youth

Rejoice, young man, while you are young,
    and make the most of the days of your youth.
Follow the inclinations of your heart
    and the desires of your eyes.
Yet remember that for all these things
    God will demand an account.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:9 God will demand an account: hence, every detail of life is in no way meaningless or vanity but of great importance.

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.

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