Spanking Children

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.

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — 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 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.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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 →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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?

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.