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Punishing Children

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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 22:6

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

Proverbs 13:24

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

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.

Ephesians 6:4

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

Proverbs 19:18

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

Proverbs 29:17

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

Hebrews 12:6–7

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” — read the full passage →

Ephesians 6:1

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

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 →

Colossians 3:21

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

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.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Exodus 20:12

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

Colossians 3:20

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

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Exodus 21:15

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

Ephesians 6:1–4

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 23:13

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

Ezekiel 18:20

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Exodus 21:17

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Proverbs 3:11–12

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

Proverbs 1:8

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

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?

Proverbs 13:1

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

Deuteronomy 6:6–7

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

Mark 9:43

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

Proverbs 23:24

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

Deuteronomy 6:7

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Proverbs 1:8–9

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

Psalms 127:3–5

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Psalms 127:3

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

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 12:9–11

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 12:7

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?

Hebrews 12:5–6

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; — read the full passage →

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Psalms 94:12

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;

Leviticus 19:3

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Daniel 9:24–27

Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 23:14

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

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

2 Peter 2:4

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Hebrews 12:10

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.

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.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Proverbs 10:17

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

Psalms 68:6

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Deuteronomy 8:5

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

2 Corinthians 5:21

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Mark 10:13–16

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — read the full passage →

Matthew 23:15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehennaas yourselves.

Malachi 4:3

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Ezekiel 28:18

By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought out a fire from your midst; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

Proverbs 20:11

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

Psalms 58:3

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Psalms 23:1–6

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 4:10

the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

Revelation 1:1–20

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, — read the full passage →

Romans 8:14

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

John 14:15

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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 →

John 3:16

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.

John 1:12

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Mark 9:47

If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehennaof fire,

Proverbs 23:4

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Genesis 39:11

About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Hebrews 12:5–11

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; — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 1:7

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

1 Timothy 5:8

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ephesians 6:1–3

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:26–27

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, — 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.

2 Corinthians 12:14

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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 16:23

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

Luke 1:37

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

Malachi 4:5

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

Ezekiel 20:47

and tell the forest of the South, Hear Yahweh’s word: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.

Ezekiel 18:5

But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

Proverbs 3:11

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Job 5:17

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Deuteronomy 11:19

You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Ephesians 5:1

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Proverbs 20:30

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

Psalms 113:9

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder.

Exodus 20:5–6

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, — read the full passage →

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