Bible Verses about “mentoring”

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

“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”

“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.”

“‹But the Comforter,› [which is] ‹the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.›”

“[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”

“¶ Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.”

“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”

“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”

“¶ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”

“¶ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”

“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.”

“Neither as being lords over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.”

“Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;”

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:”

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

“¶ He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”

“And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.”

“¶ The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:”

“A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:”

“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”

“And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.”

“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.”

“¶ The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.”

“Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.”

“And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,”

“Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.”

“And Philip ran thither to [him], and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?”

“¶ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:”

“One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.”

“Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.”

“Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.”

“And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.”

“So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.”