Disciplining A Child

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.

and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; — read the full passage →

Jesus wept.

And he said, A certain man had two sons: — read the full passage →

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.