'Youth' in the Bible

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

The wrath of God rose against themAnd killed some of the strongest of them,And subdued the choice young men of Israel.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

{A Song of degrees.} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion.

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking {sense},

Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.

Teach a youth about the way he should go;even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Foolishness is tangled up in the heart of a youth;the rod of discipline will drive it away from him.

Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.

A rod of correction imparts wisdom,but a youth left to himselfis a disgrace to his mother.

A slave pampered from his youthwill become arrogant later on.

The way of the eagle in the heavens, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the heart of the sea, And the way of a man in youth.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer pays attention to warnings.

for the poor youth has [used his wisdom and] come out of prison to become king, even though he was born poor in his kingdom.

I saw all the living, who move about under the sun, follow a second youth who succeeds him.

Woe to the land whose king is a youth and whose princes feast in the morning.

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.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

The people will oppress one another,man against man, neighbor against neighbor;the youth will act arrogantly toward the elder,and the worthless toward the honorable.

However, before the youth knows enough to reject what's wrong and choose what's right, the land whose two kings you dread will be devastated."

for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.'

And the rest of the trees of his forest are few, And a youth doth write them.

And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them.

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

In her, a nursing infant will no longer liveonly a few days,or an old man not live out his days.Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed.

But I protested, “Oh no, Lord, God! Look, I don’t know how to speak since I am only a youth.”

Then the Lord said to me:Do not say, “I am only a youth,”for you will go to everyone I send you toand speak whatever I tell you.

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.

Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

With you I will smash man and woman;with you I will smash the old man and the youth;with you I will smash the young man and the young woman.

The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied.

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

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Because Israel is a youth, and I love him, Out of Egypt I have called for My Son.

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

So they brought him to Jesus. And the spirit, when he saw Jesus, immediately threw the youth into convulsions, so that he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.

One youth indeed did follow Him, wearing only a linen cloth round his bare body. Of him they laid hold,

and coming up he touched the bier, and the bearers stopped. And he said, Youth, I say to thee, Wake up.

and as he is yet coming near, the demon rent him, and tore him sore, and Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the youth, and gave him back to his father.

And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.

and there was sitting a certain youth, by name Eutychus, upon the window -- being borne down by a deep sleep, Paul discoursing long -- he having sunk down from the sleep, fell down from the third story, and was lifted up dead.

They took the boy [Eutychus] home alive, and were greatly comforted and encouraged.

And Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Take this youth to the chiliarch, for he has something to report to him.

He therefore, having taken him with him, led him to the chiliarch, and says, The prisoner Paul called me to him and asked me to lead this youth to thee, who has something to say to thee.

The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding him, Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me.

My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.