Bible Verses about “puberty”

“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

“For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”

“Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”

“¶ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”

“That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;”

“Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:”

“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”

“And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”

“¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;”

“And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.”

“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:”

“To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.”

“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:”

“Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].”

“Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.”

“From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.”

“Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.”

“Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”

“Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”

“And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:”

“¶ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.”

“¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.”

“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.”

“Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.”

“Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.”

“And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.”

“¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.”

“When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?”

“But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].”

“¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.”

“Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:”

“Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:”

“And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

“Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.”

“And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.”

“For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.”

“For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.”

“And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].”

“¶ Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.”

“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;”

“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”

“And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”

“And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”