28 Bible Verses about Bad Children

Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble.

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

Let your way of life be without the love of money, and be content with such things as you have, for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you, never!"

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

Therefore be humbled under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time,

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance, but according to the Holy One who has called you, you also become holy in all conduct, because it is written, "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 fathers, do not provoke 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 son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him he will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place. And they shall say to the elders of his city, this son of ours 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 you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

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

He who walks with the wise shall be wise, but a companion with fools shall be destroyed.

Lo, children are the inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb is a reward. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of the young. Blessed is the man who 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 to your head and chains around your neck.

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

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

Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in Heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father in Heaven.

But when Jesus saw, He was much displeased and said to them, Allow the little children to come to Me and do not hinder them. For of such is the kingdom of God.

Now go and strike Amalek, and completely destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Blessed is he who seizes and dashes your little ones against the stones.

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, 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 each one eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall distress them.

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

And Joseph said to them, Do not fear. For am I in the place of God? But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save a great many people alive.

And the sons of Eli were sons of Belial. They did not know Jehovah.

and I saw among the simple ones, among the youths, a young man with no understanding,

And the people shall be crushed, every man by another, and every man by his neighbor; the boy shall act proudly against the old man, and the low against the honorable.