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2 Timothy 2 22
Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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James 1:21-25
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror.For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was.But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works— this person will be blessed in what he does.
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Titus 2:4-6
so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission to their husbands, so that God’s word will not be slandered.In the same way, encourage the young men to be self-controlled
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Psalms 25:7
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my acts of rebellion; in keeping with your faithful love, remember me because of your goodness, LORD.
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Joshua 1:7
Above all, be strong and very courageous to observe carefully the whole instruction my servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go.
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2 Timothy 3 15-2 Timothy 3 17
and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
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Psalms 34:11
Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
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Psalms 119:11
I have treasured your word in my heart so that I may not sin against you.
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Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice you, don’t be persuaded.
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Psalms 1:1-3
How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers!Instead, his delight is in the LORD’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams that bears its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
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Psalms 119:97-105
How I love your instruction! It is my meditation all day long.Your command makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is always with me.I have more insight than all my teachers because your decrees are my meditation.I understand more than the elders because I obey your precepts.I have kept my feet from every evil path to follow your word.I have not turned from your judgments, for you yourself have instructed me.How sweet your word is to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth.I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path.
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John 15:3
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
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Psalms 19:7-11
The instruction of the LORD is perfect, renewing one’s life; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making the inexperienced wise.The precepts of the LORD are right, making the heart glad; the command of the LORD is radiant, making the eyes light up.The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the LORD are reliable and altogether righteous.They are more desirable than gold— than an abundance of pure gold; and sweeter than honey dripping from a honeycomb.In addition, your servant is warned by them, and in keeping them there is an abundant reward.
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Proverbs 4:10-17
Listen, my son. Accept my words, and you will live many years.I am teaching you the way of wisdom; I am guiding you on straight paths.When you walk, your steps will not be hindered; when you run, you will not stumble.Hold on to instruction; don’t let go. Guard it, for it is your life.Keep off the path of the wicked; don’t proceed on the way of evil ones.Avoid it; don’t travel on it. Turn away from it, and pass it by.For they can’t sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
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Proverbs 4:1
Listen, sons, to a father’s discipline, and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,
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Deuteronomy 6:6-9
These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.
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Proverbs 6:20-35
My son, keep your father’s command, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.Always bind them to your heart; tie them around your neck.When you walk here and there, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?Can a man walk on burning coals without scorching his feet?So it is with the one who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.People don’t despise the thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much; he must give up all the wealth in his house.The one who commits adultery lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.He will get a beating and dishonor, and his disgrace will never be removed.For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.He will not be appeased by anything or be persuaded by lavish bribes.
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Proverbs 1:4
for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced, knowledge and discretion to a young man—
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Psalms 78:4-8
We will not hide them from their children, but will tell a future generation the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, his might, and the wondrous works he has performed.He established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their childrenso that a future generation— children yet to be born— might know. They were to rise and tell their childrenso that they might put their confidence in God and not forget God’s works, but keep his commands.Then they would not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
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Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:1
Rejoice, young person, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the desire of your eyes; but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgment.Remove sorrow from your heart, and put away pain from your flesh, because youth and the prime of life are fleeting.So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: Before the days of adversity come, and the years approach when you will say,“ I have no delight in them”;
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Job 13:26
For you record bitter accusations against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
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Proverbs 5:7-23
So now, sons, listen to me, and don’t turn away from the words from my mouth.Keep your way far from her. Don’t go near the door of her house.Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel;strangers will drain your resources, and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed,and you will say,“ How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.I didn’t obey my teachers or listen closely to my instructors.I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community.”Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well.Should your springs flow in the streets, streams in the public squares?They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers.Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.A loving deer, a graceful doe— let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever.Why, my son, would you lose yourself with a forbidden woman or embrace a wayward woman?For a man’s ways are before the LORD’s eyes, and he considers all his paths.A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.He will die because there is no discipline, and be lost because of his great stupidity.
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2 Chronicles 6 16
Therefore, LORD God of Israel, keep what you promised to your servant, my father David:“ You will never fail to have a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take care to walk in my Law as you have walked before me.”
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Luke 15:13
Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living.
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Job 1:5
Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought,“ Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
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Proverbs 7:7
I saw among the inexperienced, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking sense.
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Deuteronomy 17:18
When he is seated on his royal throne, he is to write a copy of this instruction for himself on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
