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Bible Verses about โ€œpunishing your childrenโ€

The Bible contains 21 verses about punishing your 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€

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€

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€

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€

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€

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€

Hebrews 12:6
52 votes

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

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