'Youth' in the Bible

When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man’s inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

you are to say, ‘Your servants, both we and our fathers, have raised livestock from our youth until now.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are abhorrent to Egyptians.”

But if the priest’s daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may share her father’s food. But no outsider may share it.

Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth, responded, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

“When a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the Lord or puts herself under an obligation,

These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, or between a father and his daughter in his house during her youth.

He captured a youth from the men of Succoth and interrogated him. The youth wrote down for him the names of the 77 princes and elders of Succoth.

Then he said to Jether, his firstborn, “Get up and kill them.” The youth did not draw his sword, for he was afraid because he was still a youth.

Now you can see that the king is leading you. As for me, I’m old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have led you from my youth until today.

But Saul replied, “You can’t go fight this Philistine. You’re just a youth, and he’s been a warrior since he was young.”

When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a youth, healthy and handsome.

When Saul had seen David going out to confront the Philistine, he asked Abner the commander of the army, “Whose son is this youth, Abner?”“My king, as surely as you live, I don’t know,” Abner replied.

But if I say this to the youth: ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you!’ then go, for the Lord is sending you away.

“Now get up! Go out and encourage your soldiers, for I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the trouble that has come to you from your youth until now!”

“Lord my God, You have now made Your servant king in my father David’s place. Yet I am just a youth with no experience in leadership.

But when I leave you, the Spirit of the Lord may carry you off to some place I don’t know. Then when I go report to Ahab and he doesn’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the Lord from my youth.

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

For You record bitter accusations against meand make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

I would be as I was in the days of my youthwhen God’s friendship rested on my tent,

for from my youth, I raised him as his father,and since the day I was born I guided the widow—

then his flesh will be healthier than in his youth,and he will return to the days of his youthful vigor.

They die in their youth;their life ends among male cult prostitutes.

Do not remember the sins of my youthor my acts of rebellion;in keeping with Your faithful love, remember mebecause of Your goodness, Lord.

For You are my hope, Lord God,my confidence from my youth.

God, You have taught me from my youth,and I still proclaim Your wonderful works.

From my youth,I have been afflicted and near death.I suffer Your horrors; I am desperate.

You have shortened the days of his youth;You have covered him with shame.Selah

He satisfies you with goodness;your youth is renewed like the eagle.

Your people will volunteeron Your day of battle.In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,the dew of Your youth belongs to You.

Like arrows in the hand of a warriorare the sons born in one’s youth.

A song of ascents.Since my youth they have often attacked me—let Israel say—

Since my youth they have often attacked me,but they have not prevailed against me.

Then our sons will be like plantsnurtured in their youth,our daughters, like corner pillarsthat are carved in the palace style.

who abandons the companion of her youthand forgets the covenant of her God;

Let your fountain be blessed,and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.

Teach a youth about the way he should go;even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Foolishness is tangled up in the heart of a youth;the rod of discipline will drive it away from him.

Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.

A rod of correction imparts wisdom,but a youth left to himselfis a disgrace to his mother.

A slave pampered from his youthwill become arrogant later on.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer pays attention to warnings.

I saw all the living, who move about under the sun, follow a second youth who succeeds him.

Rejoice, young man, while you are young,and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.And walk in the ways of your heartand in the sight of your eyes;but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgment.

Remove sorrow from your heart,and put away pain from your flesh,because youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

So remember your Creator in the days of your youth:Before the days of adversity come,and the years approach when you will say,“I have no delight in them”;

The people will oppress one another,man against man, neighbor against neighbor;the youth will act arrogantly toward the elder,and the worthless toward the honorable.

So take your stand with your spellsand your many sorceries,which you have wearied yourself with from your youth.Perhaps you will be able to succeed;perhaps you will inspire terror!

This is what they are to you—those who have wearied youand have traded with you from your youth—each wanders on his own way;no one can save you.

“Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame;don’t be humiliated, for you will not be disgraced.For you will forget the shame of your youth,and you will no longer rememberthe disgrace of your widowhood.

For the Lord has called you,like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”says your God.

In her, a nursing infant will no longer liveonly a few days,or an old man not live out his days.Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed.

But I protested, “Oh no, Lord, God! Look, I don’t know how to speak since I am only a youth.”

Then the Lord said to me:Do not say, “I am only a youth,”for you will go to everyone I send you toand speak whatever I tell you.

“Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:I remember the loyalty of your youth,your love as a bride—how you followed Me in the wilderness,in a land not sown.

From the time of our youththe shameful one has consumedwhat our fathers have worked for—their flocks and their herds,their sons and their daughters.

Let us lie down in our shame;let our disgrace cover us.We have sinned against the Lord our God,both we and our fathers,from the time of our youth even to this day.We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

I spoke to you when you were secure.You said, “I will not listen.”This has been your way since youth;indeed, you have never listened to Me.

After I returned, I repented;After I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief.I was ashamed and humiliatedbecause I bore the disgrace of my youth.”

From their youth, the Israelites and Judeans have done nothing but what is evil in My sight! They have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands”—this is the Lord’s declaration—

Moab has been left quiet since his youth,settled like wine on its dregs.He hasn’t been poured from one container to anotheror gone into exile.So his taste has remained the same,and his aroma hasn’t changed.

With you I will smash man and woman;with you I will smash the old man and the youth;with you I will smash the young man and the young woman.

But I said, “Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth.”

In all your detestable practices and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were stark naked and lying in your blood.

Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged Me with all these things, I will also bring your actions down on your own head.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Haven’t you committed immoral acts in addition to all your detestable practices?

But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

who acted like prostitutes in Egypt, behaving promiscuously in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin nipples caressed.

She didn’t give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin nipples, and poured out their lust on her.

Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt

So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts.

There I will give her vineyards back to herand make the Valley of Achorinto a gateway of hope.There she will respond as she didin the days of her youth,as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.

Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,mourning for the husband of her youth.

He will say: I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased me as a servant since my youth.

Yet you ask, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have acted treacherously against her, though she was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.

Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

He said to Him, “Teacher, I have kept all these from my youth.”

“I have kept all these from my youth,” he said.

“All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem.

Let no one despise your youth; instead, you should be an example to the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.