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Bible Verses About Youth — and What They Are Actually Asking

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  • Scripture addresses the young directly and rarely gently. 1 Timothy 4:12 is usually quoted for its first half; the second half is the instruction, naming five areas in which a young person is to be the example.
  • Ecclesiastes 12:1 asks the young to remember their Creator, and the chapter that follows is an unflinching picture of a body beginning to fail.
  • Jeremiah 1:7 refuses the obvious excuse — “Do not say, ‘I am too young’” — and the rest of Jeremiah’s life was not enviable.
  • 2 Timothy 2:22 has three verbs: flee, pursue, and with other people. The third is most often dropped.
  • The instruction running the other way is quoted far less: Ephesians 6:4 and Colossians 3:21 tell fathers not to exasperate or embitter their children.

Scripture addresses the young directly more often than people expect, and it rarely does it gently. Here are the verses worth having, and what they are actually asking. The one everybody quotes Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. (1 Timothy 4:12) It is usually quoted for the first half. The second half is the instruction, and it…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Exodus 20:12; 1 Samuel 16:11; Psalm 119:9; Ecclesiastes 12:1-5; Lamentations 3:27; Jeremiah 1:6-7; Luke 1:34; John 6:9; Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21; 1 Timothy 4:12; 2 Timothy 2:22; 1 John 2:14; 2 Chronicles 34:1-3). The root sense of the Hebrew word for honour as weight is given as in standard lexicons.

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