Bad Children

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

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

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.

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.