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2 Timothy 2 22
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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James 1:21-25
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
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Titus 2:4-6
that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.
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Psalms 25:7
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
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Joshua 1:7
Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
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2 Timothy 3 15-2 Timothy 3 17
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.Every Scripture is God- breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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Psalms 34:11
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
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Psalms 119:11
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
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Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.
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Psalms 1:1-3
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
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Psalms 119:97-105
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
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John 15:3
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
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Psalms 19:7-11
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
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Proverbs 4:10-17
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.For 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 instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
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Deuteronomy 6:6-9
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
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Proverbs 6:20-35
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.Men don’t despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
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Proverbs 1:4
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:
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Psalms 78:4-8
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
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Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:1
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say,“ I have no pleasure in them;”
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Job 13:26
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
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Proverbs 5:7-23
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,and say,“ How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
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2 Chronicles 6 16
“ Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying,‘ There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’
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Luke 15:13
Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
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Job 1:5
It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said,“ It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.
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Proverbs 7:7
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
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Deuteronomy 17:18
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
