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16 Bible Verses About Youth Serving God

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  • Samuel ministered before the LORD as a boy and answered God’s call with “Speak, for your servant is listening” (1 Samuel 3:10).
  • Jeremiah objected “I am too young,” and God told him not to say it (Jeremiah 1:6-7).
  • Josiah became king at eight and began to seek God “while he was still young” (2 Chronicles 34:1-3).
  • Paul told Timothy to answer those who looked down on his youth by setting an example “in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity” (1 Timothy 4:12).
  • Timothy had known the Scriptures from infancy, and the faith he held had first lived in his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice (2 Timothy 1:5; 3:15).

The Bible records God choosing and using people while they were young, and it treats youth as a time to serve him. When Jeremiah protested “I am too young,” God told him not to say it (Jeremiah 1:6-7). Other passages turn to how the young learn faith, from parents and from Scripture, and to what the young and the old each bring. Young people God chose and used 1 Samuel 3:10 “The LORD came and stood there, calling as at…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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