Bad Children
10 passages
- Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Read it in context - Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Read it in context - Hebrews 12:11
No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.
Read it in context - Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
Read it in context - Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Read it in context - Exodus 21:15
Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
Read it in context - 2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Read it in context - Proverbs 29:15
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
Read it in context - Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
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