7 Bible Verses about Parental Discipline

In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod is for the back of him who is lacking understanding.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?