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100 Bible Verses about Young People

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 2,935 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.

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 1,872 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”;

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 1,772 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.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 1,747 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.

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 1,712 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 1,675 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.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 1,535 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 1,452 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.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 1,438 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.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 1,389 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.

Isaiah 40:29-31 ESV / 1,379 helpful votes

He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 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.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 1,302 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.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 1,294 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.”

Ecclesiastes 11:9 ESV / 1,237 helpful votes

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 1,204 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 1,199 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.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 1,192 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.”

Romans 8:28 ESV / 1,175 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1,154 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 3:16 ESV / 1,153 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.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 1,148 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.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 1,125 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.

1 John 2:14 ESV / 1,121 helpful votes

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,114 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,

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1,112 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 1,112 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.

1 Peter 5:5-9 ESV / 1,111 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 1,093 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.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 1,089 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Romans 13:13 ESV / 1,074 helpful votes

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Proverbs 23:26 ESV / 1,074 helpful votes

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

Jeremiah 1:4-8 ESV / 1,059 helpful votes

Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.”

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 1,052 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 144:12 ESV / 1,008 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;

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 991 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 2:1-23 ESV / 988 helpful votes

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: ...

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 983 helpful votes

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, ...

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 969 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 957 helpful votes

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 945 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 885 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 883 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.”

Titus 2:7 ESV / 870 helpful votes

Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

Jeremiah 1:7 ESV / 868 helpful votes

But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.

Lamentations 3:27 ESV / 865 helpful votes

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Psalm 119:9-11 ESV / 851 helpful votes

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 848 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.

Psalm 71:5 ESV / 843 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 842 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 838 helpful votes

The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

John 14:1-31 ESV / 837 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 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? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

1 Peter 5:3 ESV / 832 helpful votes

Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 799 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 788 helpful votes

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 1:10 ESV / 780 helpful votes

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 767 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Mark 12:29-31 ESV / 763 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

1 Samuel 15:23 ESV / 759 helpful votes

For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 755 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 8:32-33 ESV / 751 helpful votes

“And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.

Psalm 1:1-3 ESV / 751 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

James 2:14-17 ESV / 749 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Proverbs 28:24 ESV / 749 helpful votes

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 748 helpful votes

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

1 Samuel 17:42-54 ESV / 741 helpful votes

And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance. And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.” Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, ...

Titus 2:4 ESV / 732 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 699 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Ephesians 6:2-3 ESV / 669 helpful votes

“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.”

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 666 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 655 helpful votes

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

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 653 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 645 helpful votes

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

James 1:12 ESV / 645 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 641 helpful votes

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 641 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Titus 2:6 ESV / 640 helpful votes

Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 629 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 593 helpful votes

“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 591 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Timothy 1:14 ESV / 575 helpful votes

And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 530 helpful votes

And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 528 helpful votes

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Titus 2:15 ESV / 506 helpful votes

Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 467 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

2 Thessalonians 3:9 ESV / 457 helpful votes

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.

Proverbs 4:1-27 ESV / 403 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

Philippians 3:17 ESV / 402 helpful votes

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

Proverbs 17:25 ESV / 370 helpful votes

A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 367 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 317 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Ecclesiastes 12:1-2 ESV / 314 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”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,

Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 312 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

James 4:7 ESV / 293 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 Peter 1:9 ESV / 285 helpful votes

Obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 285 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Peter 5:9 ESV / 269 helpful votes

Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 266 helpful votes

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

Ecclesiastes 10:1-20 ESV / 256 helpful votes

Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to everyone that he is a fool. If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest. There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler: ...

James 1:5 ESV / 229 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

John 13:34 ESV / 219 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

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