Bible Verses about “correction”
The Bible contains 26 verses about correction across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
“"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.”
“But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.”
“For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.”
“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.”
“Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.”
“But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.”
“let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.”
“It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?”
“Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,”
“Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.”
“Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?”
“For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.”
“For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."”
“and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;”
“Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.”
“He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.”
“Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.”
“Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.”
“For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,”
“He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.”