Ecclesiastes 12:1
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Remember Your Creator in Your Youth
12 Remember also your Creator in (A)the days of your youth, before (B)the evil days come and the years draw near of which (C)you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
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Lamentations 3:27
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Ecclesiastes 11:8
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8 So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember (A)that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is (B)vanity.[a]
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- Ecclesiastes 11:8 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath”; also verse 10 (see note on 1:2)
Proverbs 22:6
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6 (A)Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Psalm 71:17-18
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17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
18 So even to (A)old age and gray hairs,
O God, (B)do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Luke 18:16
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16 But Jesus called them to him, saying, (A)“Let the children come to me, and (B)do not hinder them, (C)for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
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Ecclesiastes 11:10
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10 Remove vexation from your heart, and (A)put away pain[a] from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 11:10 Or evil
Psalm 90:10
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10 The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span[a] is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
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- Psalm 90:10 Or pride
Psalm 34:11
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1 Samuel 16:12-13
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12 And he sent and brought him in. Now he was (A)ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, (B)“Arise, anoint him, for this is he.” 13 Then Samuel took (C)the horn of oil (D)and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. (E)And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
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2 Timothy 3:15
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15 and how (A)from childhood you have been acquainted with (B)the sacred writings, (C)which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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Proverbs 8:17
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Psalm 22:9-10
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9 Yet you are he who (A)took me from the womb;
you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
10 On you was I cast from my birth,
and from (B)my mother's womb you have been my God.
2 Chronicles 34:2-3
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2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the (A)Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
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2 Samuel 19:35
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35 I am this day (A)eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be (B)an added burden to my lord the king?
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1 Samuel 3:19-21
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19 (A)And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him (B)and let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 And all Israel (C)from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the Lord. 21 And the Lord appeared again at Shiloh, for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel (D)at Shiloh (E)by the word of the Lord.
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Luke 2:40-52
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40 (A)And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.
The Boy Jesus in the Temple
41 Now (B)his parents went (C)to Jerusalem every year at (D)the Feast of the Passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, (E)they went up according to custom. 43 And when the feast (F)was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. (G)His parents did not know it, 44 but supposing him to be in the group they went a day's journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances, 45 and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple, (H)sitting among (I)the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 And when his parents[a] saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, (J)your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.” 49 And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that (K)I must be in (L)my Father's house?”[b] 50 And (M)they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. 51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And (N)his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
52 And Jesus (O)increased in wisdom and in stature[c] and in (P)favor with God and man.
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1 Samuel 16:7
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7 But the Lord said to Samuel, (A)“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, (B)but the Lord looks on the heart.”
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Genesis 39:23
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23 The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because (A)the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed.
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Genesis 39:2
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2 (A)The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
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Ephesians 6:4
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4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, (A)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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Genesis 39:8-9
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8 But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and (A)he has put everything that he has in my charge. 9 He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and (B)sin against God?”
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1 Samuel 2:26
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26 Now the boy Samuel (A)continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and also with man.
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1 Samuel 2:18
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18 (A)Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy (B)clothed with a linen ephod.
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