Bible Verses about “parental discipline”
The Bible contains 18 verses about parental discipline across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth.”
“My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:”
“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”
“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”
“‹It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.›”
“¶ The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.”
“¶ Then said he unto the disciples, ‹It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe› [unto him], ‹through whom they come!›”