Bible verses about "discipline" | KJ2000

¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.

¹³ Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

¹⁷ Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.

¹⁵ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

²⁸ He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

⁴ And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

⁸ But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good, sensible, just, holy, temperate;

⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: ⁶ For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives. ⁷ If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not? ⁸ But if you be without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are you illegitimate children, and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it.

¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: ¹² For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.

⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: ⁶ For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

²⁴ He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.

²⁷ But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

¹ Whosoever loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is senseless.

¹¹ Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it.