Punishing Your Children

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

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

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

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

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.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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

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,

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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,

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.

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.

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

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, — read the full passage →

“You shall not murder.

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

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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.

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.”

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

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

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

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

Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

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.

and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

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.

“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.

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;

“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

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 →

This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. — read the full passage →

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

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,

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.”

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

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

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

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

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

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

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

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, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.