23 Bible Verses about Discipline
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To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.
Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.
Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.
Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.
Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.
Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.
It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.
At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
From Thematic Bible
Discipline » Church » The discipline of
A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society;
Such are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given up to Satan, so that they may say no more evil words against God.
Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:
That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus.
I said before, and still say it before I come, as being present for the second time, though I am still away from you, to those who have done wrong before, and to all the others, that if I come again I will not have pity;
Discipline » Of children » The correction of children
Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.
Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.
Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.
Discipline » Of armies, for disobedience of orders
Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth? Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods. For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you. read more.
Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you. So in the morning you are to come near, tribe by tribe; and the tribe marked out by the Lord is to come near, family by family; and the family marked out by the Lord is to come near, house by house; and the house marked out by the Lord is to come near, man by man. Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel. So Joshua got up early in the morning, and made Israel come before him by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken; Then he made Judah come forward, and the family of the Zerahites was taken; and he made the family of the Zerahites come forward man by man; and Zabdi was taken; Then the house of Zabdi came forward man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel; give me word now of what you have done, and keep nothing back from me. And Achan, answering, said to Joshua, Truly I have done wrong against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done: When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it. So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it. And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord. Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor. And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire. And over him they put a great mass of stones, which is there to this day; then the heat of the Lord's wrath was turned away. So that place was named, The Valley of Achor, to this day.
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death. And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel. What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives. read more.
And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord? And it was seen that no one had come from Jabesh-gilead to the meeting. For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present. So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones. And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so. Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
Topics on Discipline
Church Discipline
2 Corinthians 2:6-8Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;
Discipline Child
Proverbs 23:14Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld
Discipline From God
Job 5:17Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.
Discipline Of The Church
1 Timothy 1:3It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching,
discipline, divine
Hebrews 12:6For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.
discipline, in the family
Hebrews 12:7It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
Parental Discipline
Proverbs 10:13In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.
Self Discipline
1 Timothy 4:7But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:
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