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Spanking

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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 →

Ephesians 6:4

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

Proverbs 13:24

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

Proverbs 29:15

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

Colossians 3:21

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

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 19:18

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

Proverbs 22:15

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

Proverbs 23:13

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

Proverbs 29:17

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

Proverbs 13:1

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

Proverbs 20:30

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

Ephesians 6:1–4

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

Ephesians 6:1

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

Hebrews 12:3–11

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls. — read the full passage →

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 →

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.

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.

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?

Colossians 3:20

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

Hebrews 12:6–7

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

1 Timothy 3:4

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

Proverbs 23:14

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

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Leviticus 20:9

“‘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.

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 →

Matthew 18:6

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Proverbs 13:10

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

Revelation 3:19

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

Luke 12:47–48

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 19:26–27

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 1:7

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

Psalms 103:13

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Revelation 1:1

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,

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?

2 Timothy 3:16

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Luke 1:37

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Proverbs 23:12

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

1 Kings 19:1–21

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. — read the full passage →

2 Samuel 7:14–15

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 6:4–9

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

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 →

Hebrews 12:3

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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