Punishing your children

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• Proverbs 23:13–14

  Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

• Proverbs 13:24

  He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

• Ephesians 6:4

  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

• 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 29:15

  The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

• Proverbs 22:15

  Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

• Proverbs 29:17

  Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

• Ephesians 6:1

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

• Deuteronomy 21:18–21

  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: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. …

• Proverbs 19:18

  Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

• Colossians 3:21

  Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

• Exodus 21:17

  And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

• Hebrews 12:6–7

  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

• Exodus 21:15

  And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

• Ephesians 6:1–4

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. …

• Proverbs 23:13

  Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.