18 Bible Verses about Dealing With Young People

So they turned, and went their way, - and put the little ones, and the cattle, and the goods, before them.

Gather the people, hallow a convocation, collect the elders, gather the children, and the sucklings of the breasts, - let the bridegroom, come forth, from his chamber, and the bride from her bower:

And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, - all their cattle also and all their flocks and all their substance, carried they off as a prey;

And he said - Blessed, be thou of Yahweh, my daughter, for thou hast made thy last lovingkindness better than the first, - in not following after young men, whether poor, or rich.

Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;

And I will appoint boys to be their princes, - And, petulant children, shall rule over them,

My people! children, are their tyrants, And, women, rule over them, - My people! they who should lead thee forward, are causing thee to stray, Thy pathways, have they destroyed,

And, whosoever shall give welcome unto one such child as this, upon my name, unto me, giveth welcome.

And, taking a child, he set it in the midst of them, - and, folding it in his arms, said unto them -

And, Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their heart, taking a child, placed it near himself, -

And, whosoever shall cause to stumble one of these little ones who believe in me, it profiteth him, that there be hung a large mill-stone about his neck, and he be sunk in the wide main of the sea.

And, whosoever shall cause to stumble one of these little ones that believe, it is, seemly, for him, rather, if there is hung a large millstone about his neck, and he is cast into the sea.

It profiteth him, if, a mill-stone, is hung about his neck, and he is cast into the sea, than that he cause, one, of these little ones, to stumble.

Beware! do not despise one of these little ones; For I say unto you - that, their messengers in the heavens, do, continually, behold the face of my Father in the heavens.

Thus, there is no desire, in the presence of my Father who is in the heavens, that, one of these little ones, should be lost.

But we became gentle in your midst, - as though, a nursing mother, had been cherishing her own children:

An elderly man, do not thou reprimand, but beseech him, as though he were thy father, - younger men, as brothers,

Elderly women, as mothers, younger women, as sisters, in all chastity.