28 Bible Verses about Bad Children

Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance: but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living; because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.

Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten 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.read more.
And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; And the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

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

Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.

See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me; forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.

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

And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not Jehovah.

And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.