28 Bible Verses about Bad Children

Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace.

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

Let your conversation be without love of money, satisfied with your present circumstances; for he has said, I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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

as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance; but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.

Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not 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 unmanageable and rebellious, he hearkeneth not unto our voice; he is a profligate and a drunkard.read more.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. And thou shalt put evil away from thy midst; and all Israel shall hear and fear.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

He that walketh with wise men becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.

Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, and the fruit of the womb a reward. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother; for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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

Chasten thy son, and he shall give thee rest, and shall give delight unto thy soul.

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

But Jesus seeing it, was indignant, and said to them, Suffer the little children to come to me; forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.

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

Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which 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 everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the straitness wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

And he that striketh his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.

And Joseph said to them, Fear not: am I then in the place of God? Ye indeed meant evil against me: God meant it for good, in order that he might do as it is this day, to save a great people alive.

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

and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,

And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable.