Bible Verses about โpunishing 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.
โYou fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.โ
โTrain up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.โ
โChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.โ
โ"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:โ
โ"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."โ
โFathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.โ
โOne who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.โ
โThe rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.โ
โDon't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.โ
โPunish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.โ
โFolly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.โ
โCorrect your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.โ
โDiscipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.โ
โIt 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
โand 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
โIf 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
โthen 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
โAll 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
โFor whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."โ
โ"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.โ
โ"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.โ
