Discipline in the family

Parents are to discipline their children

Hebrews 12:7 NKJV

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

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Parents discipline out of love for their children

Proverbs 13:24 NKJV

He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

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The means of parental discipline

Training

Proverbs 22:6 NKJV

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

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Correction

Proverbs 22:15 NKJV

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.

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Verbal instruction

Ephesians 6:4 NKJV

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

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Punishment

Proverbs 23:13–14 NKJV

Do not withhold correction from a child, For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. You shall beat him with a rod, And deliver his soul from hell.

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The purpose of parental discipline is to impart wisdom

Proverbs 29:15 NKJV

The rod and rebuke give wisdom, But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

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Examples of parents who neglected discipline

Eli

1 Samuel 3:13 NKJV

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.

David

1 Kings 1:5–6 NKJV

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king”; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. (And his father had not rebuked him at any time by saying, “Why have you done so?” He was also very good-looking. His mother had borne him after Absalom.)