Bible Verses About Young Men

And when the yong man heard that saying, he went away sorowfull: for he had great possessions.

And when hee was gone out on the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I doe, that I may possesse eternall life?

Iesus sayde to him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, euen God.

Thou knowest the comandements, Thou shalt not commit adulterie. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steale. Thou shalt not beare false witnesse. Thou shalt hurt no man. Honour thy father and mother.

Then he answered, and said to him, Master, all these things I haue obserued from my youth.

And Iesus looked vpon him, and loued him, and sayde vnto him, One thing is lacking vnto thee. Go and sell all that thou hast, and giue to the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come, follow me, and take vp the crosse.

But hee was sad at that saying, and went away sorowfull: for he had great possessions.

He sayde moreouer, A certaine man had two sonnes.

And the yonger of them sayde to his father, Father, giue mee the portion of the goods that falleth to mee. So he deuided vnto them his substance.

So not many daies after, when the yonger sonne had gathered all together, hee tooke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there hee wasted his goods with riotous liuing.

Nowe when hee had spent all, there arose a great dearth throughout that land, and he began to be in necessitie.

Then hee went and claue to a citizen of that conntrey, and hee sent him to his farme, to feede swine.

And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.

Then he came to him selfe, and said, Howe many hired seruaunts at my fathers haue bread ynough, and I die for hunger?

I wil rise and goe to my father, and say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heaue, and before thee,

And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.

So hee arose and came to his father, and when hee was yet a great way off, his father sawe him, and had compassion, and ranne and fell on his necke, and kissed him.

And the sonne sayde vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heauen, and before thee, and am no more worthie to be called thy sonne.

Then the father said to his seruaunts, Bring foorth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feete,

And bring the fat calfe, and kill him, and let vs eate, and be merie:

For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe: and he was lost, but he is found. And they began to be merie.

Nowe the elder brother was in the fielde, and when he came and drewe neere to the house, he heard melodie, and dauncing,

And called one of his seruaunts, and asked what those things meant.

And hee sayde vnto him, Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fatte calfe, because he hath receiued him safe and sound.

Then he was angry, and would not goe in: therefore came his father out and entreated him.