70 Bible Verses about Youth

The glory of young men is their strength, and the honour of old men is their grey hairs.

Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;

He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.

Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.

And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.

For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him. It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.

O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.

Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.

The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.

Do not say sharp words to one who has authority in the church, but let your talk be as to a father, and to the younger men as to brothers:

And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward), So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word. ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod.

And Saul said to David, You are not able to go out against this Philistine and have a fight with him: for you are only a boy, and he has been a man of war from his earliest days.

Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.

In the seventh year of Jehu's rule, Jehoash became king; and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

And when he was twelve years old, they went up, as their way was, to the feast; And when the days of the feast came to an end and they were going back, the boy Jesus was still in Jerusalem, but they had no knowledge of it: And in the belief that he was with some of their number, they went a day's journey; and after looking for him among their relations and friends,read more.
And seeing that he was not there, they went back to Jerusalem, to make search for him. And after three days they came across him in the Temple, seated among the wise men, giving ear to their words and putting questions to them. And all to whose ears it came were full of wonder at his knowledge and the answers which he gave. And when they saw him they were surprised, and his mother said to him, Son, why have you done this to us? see, your father and I have been looking for you with sorrow. And he said to them, Why were you looking for me? was it not clear to you that my right place was in my Father's house? And his words seemed strange to them. And he went down with them and came to Nazareth; and did as he was ordered: and his mother kept all these words in her heart. And Jesus was increasing in wisdom and in years, and in grace before God and men.

Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.

And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have said; for the Lord has sent a full reward on your haters, on the children of Ammon.

But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God. Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.

And Mary said: I am the servant of the Lord; may it be to me as you say. And the angel went away.

And he had four daughters, virgins, who were prophets.

Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.

Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.

For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.

You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.)

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song.

I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.

For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.

So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:

And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.

And David the king said to all the people, Solomon my son, the only one who has been marked out by God, is still young and untested, and the work is great, for this great house is not for man, but for the Lord God.

And certain foolish and good-for-nothing men were joined with him, and made themselves strong against Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and untested and not able to keep them back.

Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.

Let no one make little of you because you are young, but be an example to the church in word, in behaviour, in love, in faith, in holy living.

But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

I saw among the young men one without sense,

Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;