Top 25 Bible Verses About Spanking Your Child (ESV)

24   Whoever spares the rod hates his son,
    but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

13   Do not withhold discipline from a child;
    if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14   If you strike him with the rod,
    you will save his soul from Sheol.

18   Discipline your son, for there is hope;
    do not set your heart on putting him to death.

11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

15   Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

17   Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;
    he will give delight to your heart.

21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

13   Do not withhold discipline from a child;
    if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

6   Train up a child in the way he should go;
    even when he is old he will not depart from it.

6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.

13:1   A wise son hears his father’s instruction,
    but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

6   For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
    and chastises every son whom he receives.”

7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

14   If you strike him with the rod,
    you will save his soul from Sheol.

30   Blows that wound cleanse away evil;
    strokes make clean the innermost parts.

4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,

3   By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back,
    but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

23   For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
    and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

11   When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise;
    when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.

11 Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.