25 Bible Verses about discipline, in the family

It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.

And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life? For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is. At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.

Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him. Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld

The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

And you are to say to him that I will send punishment on his family for ever, for the sin which he had knowledge of; because his sons have been cursing God and he had no control over them.

Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him. Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.