Ecclesiastes 11:9

Modern English Version

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasing to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair and took as wives any they chose.

1 Kings 18:12

As soon as I am gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord will carry you to a place I do not know, and so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will execute me. But I, your servant, have feared the Lord since my youth.

1 Kings 18:27

By noon, Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry out loud, for he is a god. Either he is talking or is gone away or is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and needs to be awakened.”

1 Kings 22:15

So he came to the king. And the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we wait?” And he answered him, “Go and prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

Job 31:7

If my step has turned out of the path, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to walk in their own counsels.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come and the years draw near when you say, “I have no pleasure in these days and years”;

Ecclesiastes 12:14

For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Everything my eyes wanted, I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any selfish pleasure, for my heart was glad of all my efforts; and this was my reward for all my efforts.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for people than to be glad and do good in their life,

Ecclesiastes 3:17

I thought in my heart: “God will bring judgment to the righteous and the wicked, for there is an appropriate time for every matter and deed.”

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better to be content with the sight of eyes than to have a wandering appetite. This is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that people may not find out anything that comes after them.

Jeremiah 23:17

They still say to those who despise Me, “The Lord has said, ‘You will have peace’ ”; and they say to everyone who walks after the imagination of his own heart, “No evil will come upon you.”

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Lamentations 3:27

It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.

Numbers 15:30

But the person who acts by a high hand, the natural-born citizen or the foreigner, the same reviles the Lord, and that person will be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 15:39

And it will be for you a tassel, and you will see it, and you will remember all the commandments of the Lord, and you will do them, and you will not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.

Numbers 22:32

The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before Me.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take rest. Eat, drink, and be merry.’

Acts 14:16

who in times past allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 24:25

As he lectured about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix was afraid and answered, “For now, leave! When time permits, I will send for you.”

Romans 14:10

So why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the purposes of the hearts. Then everyone will have commendation from God.

2 Corinthians 5:10

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his recompense in the body, according to what he has done, whether it was good or bad.

Deuteronomy 29:19

and it happens that, when he hears the words of this covenant, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” thus destroying the watered ground with the dry.

Hebrews 9:27

As it is appointed for men to die once, but after this comes the judgment,

Joshua 7:21

When I saw among the plundered goods a beautiful robe from Babylon, two hundred shekels of silver, and a gold bar weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground in my tent. The silver is underneath them.”

2 Peter 3:7

But by the same word, the heavens and the earth that now exist are being reserved for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of the ungodly.