Bible Verses About Youth

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

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

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

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

And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

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

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

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

But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the Lord hath sent thee away.

From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.