Bible Verses About Young Men

a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.

My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,

that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,