37 Bible Verses about training

And you say, “How I have hated instruction!
And my heart spurned reproof!

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light;
And reproofs for discipline are the way of life

Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh,
But I will come over her fair neck with a yoke;
I will harness Ephraim,
Judah will plow, Jacob will harrow for himself.

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.”

He who neglects discipline despises himself,
But he who listens to reproof acquires understanding.

but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan;

Of Zebulun, there were 50,000 who went out in the army, who could draw up in battle formation with all kinds of weapons of war and helped David with an undivided heart.

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,
That they may arise and tell them to their children,

Discipline your son while there is hope,
And do not desire his death.

Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air;

The Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this man become learned, having never been educated?”

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;

A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

Do not hold back discipline from the child,
Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

And Jesus said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”

so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

“All your sons will be taught of the Lord;
And the well-being of your sons will be great.

A Psalm of David.
Blessed be the Lord, my rock,
Who trains my hands for war,
And my fingers for battle;

Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.

instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Their number who were trained in singing to the Lord, with their relatives, all who were skillful, was 288.

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds.

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;