36 Bible Verses about training

For bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is coming.

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness,

for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ.

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

But reject the profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself to piety.

But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

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

And Moses was reared in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

And the number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to LORD, even all who were skilful, was two hundred eighty-eight.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are illiterate and uneducated men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.

Blessed be LORD, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight,

And all thy sons shall be taught of LORD, and great shall be the peace of thy sons.

so that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

And he said to them, Because of this every scholar who has been instructed in the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a house-ruler, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.

A disciple is not above his teacher, but every disciple who is fully developed will be as his teacher.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How does this man know scholarly material, not having learned?

I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons,

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle array, and were] not of double heart.

Now these are the nations which LORD left to prove Israel by them, (even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan,

But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who hearkens to reproof gets understanding.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of LORD, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoke

And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loves to tread out [the grain]. But I have passed over upon her fair neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah shall plow. Jacob shall break his clods.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.