25 Bible Verses about discipline, in the family

God deals with you like children. Endure discipline (instruction) (training). Who is the child whom a father does not discipline?

Learn this lesson by heart: Jehovah your God disciplined you like parents discipline their children.

Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh that corrected us, and we gave them respect. Shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? They disciplined us for a few days for their own pleasure. He disciplines for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyous. In fact it seems grievous! Nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

He who spares the rod (authority) hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines (instructs) him promptly.

I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household; and that they may remain in the righteous and just way of Jehovah. Jehovah will bring to Abraham what he told him.

For whom Jehovah loves He reproves, just like a father corrects the son he loves dearly. (Hebrews 12:6)

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Correct your son, and he will give you rest. Yes, he will give you delight.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, that they not be discouraged.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. The rod of discipline (instruction) will drive it far from him.

Correct your son while there is hope. Do not contribute to his death.

Do not withhold discipline from a child. If you spank him with a stick he will not die. You will spank him with a stick and deliver him from death.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Be on your guard! Make sure you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up.

Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to respect Jehovah your God, as long as you live on the land you will possess when you cross the Jordan River.

He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel. This he commanded our fathers that they should teach them to their children,

My son, listen to the instruction of your father. Do not forsake the law of your mother.

My son, obey your father's command, and do not abandon the law of your mother:

From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh that corrected us, and we gave them respect. Shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

I told him I would hand down a long lasting judgment against his household because he knew about his sons' sin. They were cursing God but he did not restrain them.

Adonijah, son of Haggith, was very handsome. His mother gave birth to him after Maacah had Absalom. Adonijah boasted about himself, saying, I will be king. He got a chariot and horses and fifty men to run ahead of him. His father never confronted him by asking: Why have you done this?