Bible Verses & Quotes About Discipline, Disciplining Children, Raising Children, Training Children, Child Discipline, Training. Encouraging Bible Verses, Scriptures, Quotes, Passages and Quotations that address the subject of disciplining children, teaching children and training children – Responsibly raising children – training, teaching and disciplining without abusing children or provoking our children to anger ~ No Child Abuse! We are also reminded that God disciplines us because he loves us. In the same way, we discipline our own children because we love them. Also listed are verses concerning children honoring parents. First we list the verses that are directed at parents, and then verses directed at children, kids or young ones.
Raising Children: Discipline, Child Discipline and Child Training Bible Verses For Fathers, Mothers, Parents
Proverbs 22:6
Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it. (NLT)
Proverbs 29:17
Discipline your children, and they will give you peace of mind and will make your heart glad. (NLT)
Hebrews 12:11
“For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” (ESV)
Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (ESV)
Deuteronomy 6:7
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. (ESV)
Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. (ESV)
Proverbs 23:13
Don’t fail to discipline your children. They won’t die if you spank them. (NLT)
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children. (ESV)
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. (ESV)
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The above Bible Verses about Child Discipline, Raising Children, Training Children & Child Rearing are a reflection of the relationship we have with God. We discipline our children because we love them and want the best for them. Likewise, God disciplines us because He loves us (his children) and He wants the best for us.
God Our Father Disciplines Us Because He Loves Us
Hebrews 12:9-11
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. (ESV)
Proverbs 29:17
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart. (ESV)
Bible Verses On Discipline, Respect and Honor For Children
Ephesians 6:1-4
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (ESV)
Leviticus 19:3
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. (ESV)
Proverbs 1:8-9
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. (ESV)
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. (ESV)
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. (ESV)
Luke 2:51-52 Learning From Jesus
Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. (NIV)
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (ESV)
See Also: Bible Verses About Elderly, Old Age, Taking Care of The Elderly
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