18 Bible Verses about Dealing With Young People

They prepared to leave, putting their small children, livestock, and possessions in front of them.

Gather the people;
sanctify the congregation;
assemble the aged;
gather the children,
even those nursing at the breast.
Let the groom leave his bedroom,
and the bride her honeymoon chamber.

The Israelites took the Midianite women and their children captive, and they plundered all their cattle, flocks, and property.

Then he said, “May the Lord bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not pursued younger men, whether rich or poor.

Even young boys scorn me.
When I stand up, they mock me.

“I will make youths their leaders,
and the unstable will govern them.”

Youths oppress My people,
and women rule over them.
My people, your leaders mislead you;
they confuse the direction of your paths.

And whoever welcomes one child like this in My name welcomes Me.

Then He took a child, had him stand among them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them,

But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, took a little child and had him stand next to Him.

“But whoever causes the downfall of one of these little ones who believe in Me—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the sea!

“But whoever causes the downfall of one of these little ones who believe in Me—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

“See that you don’t look down on one of these little ones, because I tell you that in heaven their angels continually view the face of My Father in heaven.

In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, instead we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother nurtures her own children.

Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,

older women as mothers, and with all propriety, the younger women as sisters.