Bible Verses about “spanking”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.”

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

“Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.”

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

“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.”

“But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.”

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

“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?”

“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;”

“Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?”

“For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.”

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

“and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;”

“For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.”

“A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.”

“Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.”

“You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;”