Bible Verses About Teaching

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

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

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me thy judgments.

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

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

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.