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 when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! — read the full passage →

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: — read the full passage →

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked 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: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. — read the full passage →

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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 thy father’s commandment, 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 wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

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, even as unto babes in Christ. — read the full passage →

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

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

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will 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 an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: — read the full passage →