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Corporal Punishment

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Proverbs 13:24

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

Proverbs 23:13–14

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 22:15

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

Proverbs 29:15

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

Proverbs 22:6

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

Ephesians 6:4

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

Proverbs 20:30

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

Proverbs 19:18

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

Colossians 3:21

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

Proverbs 23:13

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

Deuteronomy 25:1–3

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 26:3

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

Hebrews 12:11

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.

Proverbs 10:13

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Hebrews 12:9–11

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? — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:1–29

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 29:17

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

Colossians 3:20

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

Ephesians 6:1

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

Psalms 141:5

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Exodus 20:12

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

Hebrews 12:6

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

Proverbs 23:14

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

Deuteronomy 21:18–21

If a man has 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; — read the full passage →

Galatians 6:1

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.

Romans 13:1–7

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Romans 13:1–4

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Acts 25:11

For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Deuteronomy 5:16

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Hebrews 12:5

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;

1 Timothy 3:4

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Matthew 18:5

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

Proverbs 18:13

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

Proverbs 13:1

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

Proverbs 10:20

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

1 Kings 12:18

Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

Proverbs 4:2

for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

Proverbs 4:1

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Hebrews 12:9

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?

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Luke 18:17

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

Luke 18:16

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Matthew 25:46

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

James 1:19

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Ephesians 6:2–3

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

Zechariah 13:3

It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

2 Corinthians 2:6

Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

1 Kings 12:13–14

The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, — read the full passage →

Exodus 35:2

‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

Revelation 2:5

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

Revelation 1:1

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Matthew 18:6

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18:4

Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Psalms 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder.

Hebrews 2:6

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

Luke 1:37

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Leviticus 4:1–2

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Exodus 22:19

“Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 25:3

He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

Proverbs 9:8

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Romans 13:4

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Romans 2:12

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

2 Peter 2:9

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

2 Timothy 4:2

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Galatians 6:7

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Romans 8:1–2

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Romans 5:15

But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Proverbs 3:11–12

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →

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