28 Bible Verses about Bad Children

In like manner, ye younger men - submit yourselves unto elders; - All, however, one towards another, gird on humility; because, God, against the haughty, arrayeth himself, whereas, unto the lowly, he giveth favour.

Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for, this, is, well pleasing, in the Lord;

Without fondness for money, be your way of life, - being content with the present things, - for, he, hath said: In nowise, thee, will I leave, no indeed! in nowise, thee, will I forsake:

Honour thy father, and thy mother, - that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil, which Yahweh thy God is about to give unto thee.

Be made lowly, therefore, under the strong hand of God, that he may lift, you, up in due time, -

As obedient persons, not configuring yourselves unto your former covetings in your ignorance: But, according as he that hath called you is holy, do, ye yourselves, also become, holy in all manner of behaviour, - Inasmuch as it is written - Holy shall ye be, because, I, am holy.

Train up a youth, in the direction of his duty, even when he becometh old, he will not depart from it.

And ye fathers, be not provoking your children to anger, but be nourishing them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

For, the wages of sin, is death; but, God's gift of favour, is life age-abiding, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

When a man hath a son, rebellious and insulting, who will not hearken to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, - though they chastise him, yet will not hearken unto them, then shall his father and his mother, lay hold of him, - and bring him forth unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; and shall say unto the elders of his city: This our son, is rebellious and insulting, - he will not hearken unto our voice, - a glutton and a tippler.read more.
Then shall all the men of his city stone him with stones that he die, so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of thy midst, - and, all Israel, shall hear and fear.

That One, it behoveth to increase, - but, me, to decrease.

And be ye gracious one to another, tenderly affectionate, in favour forgiving one another - even as, God also, in Christ, hath in favour forgiven you;

He that walketh with the wise, becometh wise, but, the friend of dullards, becometh foolish.

Lo! an inheritance from Yahweh, are children, A reward, the fruit of the womb: As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so, are the children of young men. How happy the man who hath filled his quiver with them! They will not be ashamed, but will speak with enemies in the gate.

Hear, my son, the correction of thy father, and do not reject the instruction of thy mother; For, a wreath of beauty, shall they be to thy head, and chains of ornament, to thy neck.

Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.

Correct thy son, that he may give thee rest, that he may give delight to thy soul.

Beware! do not despise one of these little ones; For I say unto you - that, their messengers in the heavens, do, continually, behold the face of my Father in the heavens.

But Jesus, seeing it, was greatly displeased, and said unto them - Suffer the children to come unto me, - do not hinder them; for, of such, is the kingdom of God.

Now, go and smite Amalek, and devote ye to destruction all that he hath, and spare him not, - but thou shalt slay both man and woman, both child and suckling, both ox and sheep, both camel and ass.

How happy the man who shall snatch away and dash thy children against the crag.

Yet remember thy Creator, in the days of thy vigour, - or ever come in, the days of discomfort, and the years arrive, in which thou shalt say - I have, in them, no pleasure;

And I will suffer them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, yea every one - the flesh of his friend, will they eat, - in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith, their enemies, and they who seek their lives, will straiten them.

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

And Joseph said unto them - Do not fear, - although in place of God, I am. Ye, indeed, planned against me, evil, - God, planned it, for good, for the sake of doing, as at this day, to save alive much people.

Now, the sons of Eli, were abandoned men, - they knew not Yahweh.

And saw among the simple ones, discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense;

And the people will, tyrannise, Every man over his fellow-man, And every man over his friend, - And they will rage The boy against, the elder, And the despised, against, the honourable,