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Bible Verses about โ€œdiscipline of childrenโ€

The Bible contains 27 verses about discipline of children across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Ephesians 6:4
1043 votes

โ€œYou fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.โ€

Proverbs 22:6
1017 votes

โ€œTrain up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.โ€

Ephesians 6:1
573 votes

โ€œChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.โ€

Exodus 20:12
517 votes

โ€œ"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.โ€

Ephesians 6:2
517 votes

โ€œ"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:โ€

Ephesians 6:3
461 votes

โ€œ"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."โ€

Colossians 3:21
347 votes

โ€œFathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.โ€

Proverbs 13:24
277 votes

โ€œOne who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.โ€

Proverbs 29:15
193 votes

โ€œThe rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.โ€

Hebrews 12:11
179 votes

โ€œAll 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.โ€

Proverbs 23:13
172 votes

โ€œDon't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.โ€

Proverbs 23:14
153 votes

โ€œPunish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.โ€

Proverbs 22:15
134 votes

โ€œFolly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.โ€

Proverbs 29:17
125 votes

โ€œCorrect your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.โ€

Hebrews 12:8
119 votes

โ€œBut if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.โ€

Proverbs 19:18
105 votes

โ€œDiscipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.โ€

Hebrews 12:7
81 votes

โ€œIt is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?โ€

Proverbs 12:1
78 votes

โ€œWhoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.โ€

Hebrews 12:9
66 votes

โ€œFurthermore, 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?โ€

Hebrews 12:10
66 votes

โ€œFor 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.โ€

Hebrews 12:6
52 votes

โ€œFor whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."โ€

Proverbs 15:5
44 votes

โ€œA fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.โ€

Hebrews 12:5
41 votes

โ€œand 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;โ€

Proverbs 15:32
37 votes

โ€œHe who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.โ€

Proverbs 13:1
33 votes

โ€œA wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.โ€

Proverbs 6:23
20 votes

โ€œFor the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,โ€

Proverbs 23:15
14 votes

โ€œMy son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:โ€

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