Bible Verses About Youth

Being young is an exciting time filled with energy, dreams, and growth. The Bible has a lot to say about youth and how to make the most of it. In this blog post, bible verses about youth, we’ll look at Bible verses that offer guidance and encouragement for young people. These scriptures will help you understand how to live with purpose, make wise choices, and grow in your faith during these important years. Whether you’re navigating school, friendships, or future plans, these verses will inspire and support you on your journey.

Bible Verses About Youth

1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Ecclesiastes 11:9
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 the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Proverbs 20:29
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

Psalm 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Proverbs 1:8
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

2 Timothy 2:22
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 71:5
For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.

Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Proverbs 3:1
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments.

1 John 2:13
I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.

Psalm 144:12
May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Proverbs 4:7
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

2 Chronicles 34:3
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and metal images.

Jeremiah 1:7
But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.”

Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Psalm 148:12
Young men and maidens together, old men and children!

Daniel 1:4
Children in whom was no blemish, but good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.

Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

1 Samuel 16:12
And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.”

Isaiah 40:30
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;

Genesis 37:2
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

Proverbs 13:20
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Psalm 148:9
Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars!

Exodus 33:11
Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Acts 2:17
‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

1 Corinthians 16:13
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

1 Samuel 3:19
And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

Isaiah 54:13
All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

1 Corinthians 7:36
If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry— it is no sin.

Proverbs 19:20
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Matthew 18:3
And said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Psalm 119:11
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

1 John 2:14
I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Joshua 14:10
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Isaiah 43:4
Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

Psalm 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

1 Samuel 17:33
And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”

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