Bible Verses About Discipline

“Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.”

“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

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

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

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”

“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”

“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.”

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”

“Let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”

“Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law.”

“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

“No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”

“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”

“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”

“Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.”

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

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

“Withhold not correction from the child.”

“Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.”

“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”