Bible Verses about “rebellious children”

“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.”

“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”

“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”

“But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.”

“traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;”

“without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,”

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

“The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

“Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.”

“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.”

“"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.”

“for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.”

“"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”

“The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'”

“Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;”

“But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!”

“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.”

“I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.”

“I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'”

“He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.”

“Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.”

“He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.”

“He said, "A certain man had two sons.”

“The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.”

“When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.”

“"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.”

“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 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.”