37 Bible Verses about training

Physical exercise is of limited value, but Godliness is very dear, a pledge of life, both there and here.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

to equip the saints, to do the work of ministry, and to build up the body of the Messiah

Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that withers away, but we run to win a prize that never fades.

Do not have anything to do with godless myths and fables of old women. Instead, train yourself to be godly.

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, for those who have been trained by it, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.

But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

So Moses learned all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became a great man, both in words and in deeds.

so that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good action.

When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken prisoner, he gathered together 318 of his trained men, who had been born in his household, and they went out in pursuit as far as Dan.

Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under command of the king. They and their relatives who had been skillfully trained in singing to the LORD, numbered 288.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.

It trains us to renounce ungodly living and worldly passions so that we might live sensible, honest, and godly lives in the present age

Now when the Jewish leaders saw the boldness of Peter and John and found out that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and realized that they had been with Jesus.

Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare,

Then all your children will be taught by the LORD, and great will be your children's prosperity.

They should encourage the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Then he told them, "That is why every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom from heaven is like the master of a household who brings both new and old things out of his treasure chest."

Don't withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with a rod, he won't die.

A disciple is not better than his teacher. But everyone who is fully-trained will be like his teacher.

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching.

The Jewish leaders were astonished and remarked, "How can this man be so educated when he has never gone to school?"

That is the way I run, with a clear goal in mind. That is the way I fight, not like someone shadow boxing.

Discipline your son while there is still hope but don't set your heart on his destruction.

in order that the next generation children yet to be born will know them and in turn teach them to their children.

The tribe of Zebulun supplied 50,000 experienced troops, trained in the use of every kind of war weapon, in order to help David with undivided loyalty.

Here's a list of nations that the LORD caused to remain in order to test Israel (that is, everyone who had not gained any battle experience in Canaan)

No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified.

Whoever ignores instruction hates himself, but anyone who heeds reproof gains understanding.

Indeed, I've made myself known to him in order that he may encourage his sons and his household that is born after him to keep the way of the LORD, and to do what is right and just, so that the LORD may bring about for Abraham what he has promised."

"Ephraim, the well-trained heifer, loves to thresh grain, so I will spare her neck. I will turn Ephraim into a pack animal. Judah will pull the plow, and Jacob will turn up the fallow ground.

Because the command is a lamp and the Law a light, rebukes that discipline are a way of life

You know that in a race all the runners run but only one wins the prize, don't you? You must run in such a way that you may be victorious.

and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction!