Bible Verses about “disciplining children”
Found 22 verses (ordered by relevance) about “disciplining children” in the KJV version of the Bible
“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.”
“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.”
“¶ Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.”
“¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.”
“¶ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.”
“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.”
“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”
“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:”
“¶ A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.”
“¶ The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.”
“For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:”