Bible Verses About Young Men

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

Whoever keeps the Torah is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him.

“Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!

Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, saying Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

Behold, one came to him and said, “Good Rabbi, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

He said to him, “Which ones?” Yeshua said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

‘Honor your father and mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

Yeshua said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”