Bible Verses about “discipline”
The Bible contains 43 verses about discipline 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.”
“For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.”
“One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.”
“but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”
“Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
“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.”
“Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.”
“looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
“Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.”
“Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.”
“but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;”
“But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.”
“for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.”
“My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:”
“Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,”
“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?”
“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.”
“Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.”
“For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."”
“As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.”
“looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;”
“Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,”
“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;”
“Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,”
“For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.”
“and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.”
“But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,”
“for our God is a consuming fire.”
“whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."”
“to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.”
“You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;”
“This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.”
“lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.”
“For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.”
“to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,”
“For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,”
“the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,”
“for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"”
“and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."”
“See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,”