Bible Verses About Young Men

The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.

Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.

For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.

Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyelids direct thy way before thee.

Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.

Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.

My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.

That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.

But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.

She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.

Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:

Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,

And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!

I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.

Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.

Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.