100 Bible Verses About Mentoring

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:

For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the Lord even require it at the hand of David’s enemies.

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.

And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

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.

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

Elihu also proceeded, and said,

And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.

Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.

And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:

And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the Lord passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.

The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

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

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.

And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying,

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.