Bible Verses about “disciplining children”
The Bible contains 22 verses about disciplining 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.”
“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”
“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.”
“Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.”
“Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.”
“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.”
“Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.”
“Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.”
“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.”
“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;”
“A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.”
“Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.”
“For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,”