Bible Verses about “corporal punishment”

“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.”

“Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.”

“¶ 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.”

“Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.”

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

“¶ 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.”

“¶ The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.”

“¶ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.”

“¶ 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.”

“¶ If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.”

“And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.”

“Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest, [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.”