Parental Discipline

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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

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

The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?

Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Withhold not correction from the child; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

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

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

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; Butthe rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokesreachthe innermost parts.

And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come! — read the full passage →

My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →

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 →

Give not thy strength unto women, Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

Withhold not correction from the child; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof:

And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. — read the full passage →

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come! — read the full passage →

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward. — read the full passage →

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it; — read the full passage →