Youth

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.

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.

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

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”;

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

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

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.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

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 →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

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

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — 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 →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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 →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. — read the full passage →

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

“Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me. — read the full passage →

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

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

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!” — read the full passage →

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments. — read the full passage →

Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

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

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

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

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: — read the full passage →

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways. — read the full passage →

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

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

Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another? — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!” — read the full passage →

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

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.

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

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

He looked up, and said, “I see men; for I see them like trees walking.”

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.