Bible Verses for Graduation
King James Version (KJV)
Graduation marks a milestone — years of hard work, growth, and preparation coming to fruition. It is a moment for celebration and also a time of transition, standing at the threshold of a new chapter full of possibility and uncertainty.
These Bible verses for graduation speak to young people stepping into adulthood, career, and calling. They are words of blessing and challenge: to pursue wisdom, live with purpose, trust God with the future, and make their lives count for something greater than themselves.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
“And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;”
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.”
“Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
“¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
“‹Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.›”
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
“‹Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway,› [even] ‹unto the end of the world.› Amen.”
“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,”
“¶ Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.”
“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].”
“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
“Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”
“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;”
“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;”
“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
“¶ NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.”
“Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things];”
“Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all [things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.”
“The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.”
“The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”