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Bible Verses about “punishing your children

Found 21 verses (ordered by relevance) about “punishing your children” in the WEB version of the Bible

Ephesians 6:4
1043 votes

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

Proverbs 22:6
1017 votes

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

Ephesians 6:1
573 votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 6:2
517 votes

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

Ephesians 6:3
461 votes

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

Colossians 3:21
347 votes

Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

Proverbs 13:24
277 votes

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Proverbs 29:15
193 votes

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Proverbs 23:13
172 votes

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

Proverbs 23:14
153 votes

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 22:15
134 votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 29:17
125 votes

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Proverbs 19:18
105 votes

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.

Hebrews 12:7
81 votes

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

Deuteronomy 21:20
75 votes

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."

Deuteronomy 21:18
67 votes

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;

Deuteronomy 21:19
65 votes

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;

Deuteronomy 21:21
65 votes

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.

Hebrews 12:6
52 votes

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."

Exodus 21:17
51 votes

"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 21:15
50 votes

"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.