9 Bible Verses about Child Abuse

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

"'Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.

Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house.

and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.