19 Bible Verses about Adults

Let no one despise your youth; but become a model for believers, in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

A temptation has not taken you, except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;

"Peace I leave for you; My own peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled; neither let it be fearful.

Let your disposition be without fondness for money; content with the present things; for He Himself hath said, "I will in nowise leave you, neither will I in any wise forsake you."

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men, as brethren: the elder women, as mothers: younger, as sisters, in all purity.

and become kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, continence; against such there is no law.

These things have I spoken to you, that in Me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be no more; neither mourning, nor crying, nor pain, shall be any more; because the first things passed away."

And, apart from faith, it is impossible to please Him; for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder to those who seek after Him.

For the time past is sufficient to have wrought the will of the gentiles, having walked in wantonness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revelings, carousings, and impious idolatries;

But flee youthful desires; and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart. But the foolish and ignorant questionings reject, knowing that they beget strifes; now a servant of the Lord must not engage in strife, but should be gentle towards all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,read more.
in meekness correcting those opposing themselves, if peradventure God should give them repentance to a full knowledge of the truth,

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy;

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and sobriety.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom ye have from God, and that ye are not your own? For ye were bought with a price; glorify God, therefore, in your body.

doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself;

(for we walk by faith and not by sight);

not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,