7 Bible Verses about Parental Discipline

In the lips of the prudent wisdom is found and is a rod unto the back of him that is void of understanding.

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

Do not withhold correction from the child; for if thou shall beat him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, but do not stir up thy soul to destroy him.

But if ye are without chastisement, of which all the sons are partakers, then ye are bastards, and not sons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; is it not much better to be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live? For they verily for a few days chastened us as it seemed good unto them, but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

And ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him: for whom the Lord loves, he chastens and scourges everyone whom he receives as a son. If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?