18 Bible Verses about Dealing With Young People

And they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the valuables before them.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, gather the elders, gather the children and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth out of his chamber, and the bride out of her room.

And the sons of Israel took all the women of Midian captive, and their little ones, and the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

And he said, Blessed be you of Jehovah, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, in that you did not follow young men, whether poor or rich.

Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.

And I will give young boys to be their rulers, and caprices shall rule over them.

As for my people, children are their taskmasters, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your rulers cause you to go astray and destroy the way of your paths.

And whoever shall receive one such little child in My name receives Me.

And He took a child, and embraced it, and set him in their midst. And He said to them,

And seeing the argument of their heart, Jesus took a child and set him beside Him.

But whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believes in Me, it would be better for him that an ass's millstone were hung around his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.

And whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in Me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in Heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father in Heaven.

Even so it is not the will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse warmly cherishes her children.

Do not sharply rebuke an elder, but exhort as a father, and the younger ones as brothers,

older women as mothers, the younger as sisters in all purity.