Teenagers

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;

Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.

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

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

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

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, — read the full passage →

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. — read the full passage →

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. — read the full passage →

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? — read the full passage →

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. — read the full passage →

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh. — read the full passage →

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: — read the full passage →

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul. — read the full passage →

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out. — read the full passage →

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah. — read the full passage →

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. — read the full passage →

Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer. — read the full passage →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. — read the full passage →

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good. — read the full passage →

Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! — read the full passage →

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig. — read the full passage →

Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words. — read the full passage →

youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans. — read the full passage →

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men. — read the full passage →

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. — read the full passage →

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle: — read the full passage →

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. — read the full passage →

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. — read the full passage →

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. — read the full passage →

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.” — read the full passage →

He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.” — read the full passage →

When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.” — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. — read the full passage →

He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel. — read the full passage →

My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. — read the full passage →

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice. — read the full passage →

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. — read the full passage →

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. — read the full passage →

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Lover — read the full passage →

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

“Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows! — read the full passage →

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich. — read the full passage →

“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. — read the full passage →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.” — read the full passage →

“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. — read the full passage →

“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. — read the full passage →

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint. — read the full passage →

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

He entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.” — read the full passage →

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. — read the full passage →

Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy! — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? — read the full passage →

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead. — read the full passage →

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them. — read the full passage →

When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; — read the full passage →