Bible Verses About Young Men

Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

Asa loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor: Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor;

Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:

Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

Provideth her bread in the summer, And gathereth her food in the harvest.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Yeta little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;

That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet, That maketh signs with his fingers;

In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil continually, Who soweth discord.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

There are six things which Jehovah hateth; Yea, seven which are an abomination unto him:

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

A heart that deviseth wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,