9 Bible Verses about Child Abuse

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

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