21 Bible Verses about training

Train yourself in godliness. Exercise for the body is not useless, but godliness is useful in every respect, possessing, as it does, the promise of Life now and of the Life which is soon coming.

Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;

in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving--for the building up of Christ's body--

But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.

But worldly stories, fit only for credulous old women, have nothing to do with.

Now, at the time, discipline seems to be a matter not for joy, but for grief; yet it afterwards yields to those who have passed through its training a result full of peace--namely, righteousness.

Such persons are mere babes. But solid food is for adults--that is, for those who through constant practice have their spiritual faculties carefully trained to distinguish good from evil.

So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and possessed great influence through his eloquence and his achievements.

so that the man of God may himself be complete and may be perfectly equipped for every good work.

And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice.

training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,

As they looked on Peter and John so fearlessly outspoken--and also discovered that they were illiterate persons, untrained in the schools--they were surprised; and now they recognized them as having been with Jesus.

They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

"Therefore," He said, "remember that every Scribe well trained for the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a householder who brings out of his storehouse new things and old."

There is no disciple who is superior to his teacher; but every one whose instruction is complete will be like his teacher.

The Jews were astonished. "How does this man know anything of books," they said, "although he has never been at any of the schools?"

That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,

but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.

Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.