28 Bible Verses about Bad Children

In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all [of you] clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

Your lifestyle [must be] free from the love of money, being content with what you have. For he himself has said, "I will never desert you, and I will never abandon you."

"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the [right] time,

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires [you used to conform to] in your ignorance, but as the one who called you [is] holy, [you] yourselves be holy in all [your] conduct, for it is written, "You will be holy, because I [am] holy."

Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

For the compensation due sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

"{If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son} [who] {does not listen to} the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obey them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his {town}, and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious; {he does not obey us}, [and] he is a glutton and a drunkard.'read more.
Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones and let him die; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all of Israel will hear, and they will fear.

It is necessary for that one to increase, but [for] me to decrease."

Become kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.

Walk with the wise and be wise, but as for the companion of fools, he will suffer harm.

Look, children [are] the heritage of Yahweh; the fruit of the womb [is] a reward. Like arrows in [the] hand of a warrior, so [are] the children of [one's] youth. Blessed [is] the man who fills his quiver with them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with enemies at the gate.

My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings, for they [are] a garland of favor for your head, and pendants for your neck.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.

Discipline your children, and they will give you rest, and they will give delight to your soul.

"See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven constantly see the face of my Father [who is] in heaven.

But [when] Jesus saw [it], he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the young children come to me. Do not forbid them, {for to such belongs} the kingdom of God.

So then, go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that is his! You must not spare him, but kill both man and woman, both child and nursing infant, both ox and sheep, both camel and donkey.'"

Happy [shall be he] who seizes and smashes your children against the rock.

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth-- before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them!"

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each one will eat the flesh of his neighbor in [the] siege and in [the] distress which their enemies and those who seek their life inflict on them." '

And {whoever strikes} his father or his mother will surely be put to death.

Then Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for [am] I in the place of God? As for you, you planned evil against me, [but] God planned it for good, in order to do this--to keep many people alive--as [it is] today.

Now the sons of Eli [were] {worthless scoundrels}; they did not know Yahweh.

And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking {sense},

And the people will be oppressed {by each other} and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable.