The best Bible verses for mentorship (KJV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for mentorship (KJV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"Isaiah 19:11
"Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"Isaiah 19:11
"If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;"1 Timothy 6:3
"Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old."Matthew 13:52
"And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!"Proverbs 5:13
"Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning."Proverbs 9:9
"An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law."Romans 2:20
"This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;"1 Timothy 1:18
"These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:"Matthew 10:5
"Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread."Matthew 15:2
"Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine."1 Timothy 5:17
"The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail."Isaiah 9:15
"Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day."Luke 9:22
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for mentorship (KJV) are Isaiah 19:11, Matthew 21:6, 1 Timothy 6:3. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to mentorship (KJV) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for mentorship (KJV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.