Bible Verses About Discipline

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby .

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means , when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

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

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

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

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

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

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

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.