Bible Verses about “bad children”
The Bible contains 24 verses about bad children across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
“That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
“Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
“¶ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
“¶ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.”
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”
“¶ Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.”
“¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.”
“‹For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.›”
“The eye [that] mocketh at [his] father, and despiseth to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.”
“And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he is] a glutton, and a drunkard.”
“¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and [that], when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:”
“Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;”
“And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.”
“And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.”
“And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.”
“¶ Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right.”
“¶ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother.”
“¶ A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.”