Bible Verses About Young Men

A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction Onlyto err from the words of knowledge.

The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:

Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.

Let not thy heart envy sinners; Butbe thouin the fear of Jehovah all the day long:

For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.

Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothea manwith rags.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:

At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.