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Teaching
Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Wisdom's Protection
Ecclesiastes 7:12 For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Training Children
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
The Message
1 Corinthians 2:4-5 And my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Bringing Up Children
Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Teaching Material
2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Intelligent Heart
Proverbs 18:15 An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Work for the Lord
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Do Not be Conformed
Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Instruction
Proverbs 4:13 Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
Teach Them the Way
Deuteronomy 11:19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Plans for your Welfare
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
A Fool's Joke
Proverbs 10:23 Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
A Fool's Mouth
Proverbs 18:6 A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.
A Fool's Pleasure
Proverbs 18:2 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
If God is For Us...
Romans 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Do You Not Know?
Isaiah 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
God's Plans
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Unsatisfied
Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Older Days
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Remember Your Creator
Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”
Older Women
Titus 2:3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good
Older Men
Titus 2:2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
Old Age
Psalm 71:9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
The Aged
Job 12:12 Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.