Love & Relationships
Bible Verses About bad children
20 key scriptures
Explore what the Bible says about bad children. This collection of 20 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Deuteronomy 21:18 |
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| King James (KJV) | “If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:” |
20 Key Scriptures
“If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:”
“The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.”
“Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.”
“Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
“He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Train: or, Catechise in: Heb. in his way”
“Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. for: or, to his destruction: or, to cause him to die”
“A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.”
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
Exodus 20:12KJV
“And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.”
Exodus 21:15KJV
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. the valley: or, the brook”
“Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.”
“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby .”
“The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
“For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.”
Matthew 15:4KJV
“And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. curseth: or, revileth”
Exodus 21:17KJV
“Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.”
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