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.
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction 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 will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
“"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:”
“"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."”
“Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.”
“One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.”
“The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.”
“All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.”
“Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.”
“Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.”
“For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'”
“"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.”
“and they shall tell 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, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;”
“then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;”
“All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.”
“"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.”
“"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.”
“Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.”
“The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.”
“A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.”