24 Bible Verses about Limitations Of Youth

Banish anxiety from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and vigor [are] vanity.

And he said to Jether, his firstborn, "Get up, kill them." But the boy did not draw his sword, for he was afraid because he [was] still a boy.

Then she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, [along] with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. She brought him to the house of Yahweh at Shiloh while the boy [was still] young.

But Saul said to David, "You will not be able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, because you are [only] a boy, whereas [he has] been a man of war since his childhood!"

When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him, for he was [only] a boy and ruddy with a handsome appearance.

Then David said, "Solomon my son [is] a boy and inexperienced, and the house built for Yahweh [must be] exceedingly great in fame and splendor throughout every land. I will make preparations for him." So David provided abundant [materials] before he died.

Then David the king said to all the assembly, "God has chosen Solomon my son alone, a young man and inexperienced, and the work [is] great, for the citadel [is] not for humankind, but for Yahweh God.

and worthless men, {sons of wickedness}, were gathered about him and became hostile against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was a boy and gentle of heart and was not strong enough [to stand] before them.

Let no one look down on your youth, but be an example for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

But Yahweh said to me, "You must not say, 'I [am] a youth,' for to {whomever} I send you, you will go, and {whatever} I command you, you will speak.

And [in] all of your detestable things and your fornication you did not remember the days of your childhood {when you were naked and bare}, [when] you were kicking about in your blood.

Thus Elihu had waited for Job {to speak} because {they were older than he}.

Then Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite {spoke up} and said, "{I am young}, but you are old; therefore I feared and became afraid of explaining my knowledge to you.

Even young people will be faint and grow weary, and [the] young will stumble, exhausted.

For before the boy knows to call 'my father' and 'my mother,' [one] will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria."

Now I say, for as long a time [as] the heir is a child, [he is] no different from a slave, [although he] is master of everything,

not newly converted, lest he become conceited [and] fall into the condemnation of the devil.

But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

"Indeed, you write bitter things against me, and you make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions. According to your loyal love remember me [if] you [will], for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh.

You must not fear, for you will not be ashamed, and you must not be confounded, for you will not feel abashed, for you will forget the shame of your youth, and you will no longer remember the disgrace of your widowhood.

[It is] good for a man who carries the yoke of his childhood.

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

But refuse younger widows, for whenever their physical desires lead them away from Christ, they want to marry,