What Does the Bible Say About Troubled Teens?

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

James 1:2-4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

John 14:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Nahum 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Matthew 5:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Matthew 11:28-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

1 John 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

James 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

John 14:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Matthew 8:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him,

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Proverbs 17:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Psalm 144:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

James 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

2 Timothy 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

John 14:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Proverbs 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight,

Psalm 71:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.

Psalm 50:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

Psalm 34:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 34:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.

Psalm 23:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

67 Bible Verses about Troubled Teens

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:2-4 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:37 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nahum 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 15:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 11:28-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 8:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 17:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 144:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 71:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 50:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 34:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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