28 Bible Verses about Bad Children

Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

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

Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.

Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he who has called you is holy, so be holy in all manner of conduct; Because it is written, You will be holy; for I am holy.

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

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

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

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and 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.read more.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, so that he dies: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.

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

Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.

Take heed that you 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 much displeased, and said unto them, Allow the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones.

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall 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 distress, with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.

And he that strikes 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? But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

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

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

And the people shall be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honorable.