21 Bible Verses about training

For bodily exercise profiteth little, but piety is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come:

and is profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;

to the edifying of the body of Christ:

And every one that enters the lists is temperate in all things: they indeed do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.

But profane and groundless fables reject, and exercise thyself unto godliness.

Now no chastening seems for the present to be matter of joy but of grief: and yet afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those that are exercised thereby.

but firm food is for persons come to age, who by habit have their senses exercised to a discernment both of good and evil.

And Moses was trained up in all the wisdom of the Egyptians: and he was mighty in words, and in deeds.

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly fitted for every good work.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children: but educate them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

teaching us that denying ungodliness, and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in this present world;

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were plain and illiterate men, they were amazed; and they knew them again that they had been with Jesus:

that they may instruct the young women to be temperate, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be prudent,

Therefore every teacher, who has been thus instructed in the knowledge of the kingdom of heaven, is like a master of a family, who brings forth out of his store things new and old.

the learner is not above his teacher, tho' every complete scholar will become as learned as his master.

And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, who never learnt?

I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:

but I mortify my body and bring it into subjection, least after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.