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Bible Verses about โ€œdisobedient childrenโ€

The Bible contains 32 verses about disobedient children across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

John 3:16
2236 votes

โ€œFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.โ€

John 3:17
848 votes

โ€œFor God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.โ€

Revelation 1:1
692 votes

โ€œThis is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,โ€

Ephesians 6:1
573 votes

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

2 Timothy 3:2
536 votes

โ€œFor men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,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€

James 4:17
454 votes

โ€œTo him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.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€

Ephesians 5:6
229 votes

โ€œLet no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.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€

John 3:18
149 votes

โ€œHe who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.โ€

John 3:19
131 votes

โ€œThis is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.โ€

Colossians 3:6
91 votes

โ€œfor which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.โ€

Matthew 15:4
88 votes

โ€œFor God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'โ€

Proverbs 30:17
86 votes

โ€œ"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.โ€

Deuteronomy 21:20
75 votes

โ€œand 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."โ€

Romans 5:19
75 votes

โ€œFor as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.โ€

Deuteronomy 21:18
67 votes

โ€œIf 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;โ€

Deuteronomy 21:19
65 votes

โ€œthen 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;โ€

Deuteronomy 21:21
65 votes

โ€œAll 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.โ€

1 Samuel 15:23
54 votes

โ€œFor rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king."โ€

Ephesians 2:2
53 votes

โ€œin which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;โ€

Exodus 21:17
51 votes

โ€œ"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.โ€

Exodus 21:15
50 votes

โ€œ"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.โ€

Mark 7:10
44 votes

โ€œFor Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'โ€

Leviticus 20:9
38 votes

โ€œ"'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.โ€

Mark 7:9
32 votes

โ€œHe said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.โ€

Leviticus 26:14
25 votes

โ€œ"'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;โ€

Leviticus 26:15
25 votes

โ€œand if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;โ€

Leviticus 26:16
25 votes

โ€œI also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.โ€

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