Bible Verses About Young Men

The way of the wicked is like darkness; they don't even know what makes them stumble.

My son, pay attention to what I am saying; incline your ear to my words.

Don't let them out of your sight, keep them deep in your heart;

for they are life to those who find them and health to their whole being.

Above everything else, guard your heart; for it is the source of life's consequences.

Keep crooked speech out of your mouth, banish deceit from your lips.

Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze on what lies in front of you.

Level the path for your feet, let all your ways be properly prepared;

then deviate neither right nor left; and keep your foot far from evil.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding;

so that you will preserve discretion and your lips keep watch over knowledge.

For the lips of a woman who is a stranger drop honey, her mouth is smoother than oil;

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to Sh'ol;

she doesn't walk the level path of life -her course wanders all over, but she doesn't know it.

So now, children, listen to me; don't turn away from what I am saying:

distance your way from her, stay far from the door of her house;

so that you won't give your vigor to others and your years to someone who is cruel,

so strangers won't be filled with your strength and what you worked for go to a foreign house.

Then, when your flesh and bones have shrunk, at the end of your life, you would moan,

"How I hated discipline! My whole being despised reproof,

I ignored what my teachers said, I didn't listen to my instructors.

I took part in almost every kind of evil, and the whole community knew it."

Drink the water from your own cistern, fresh water from your own well.

Let what your springs produce be dispersed outside, streams of water flowing in the streets;