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Parents’ loving, corrective training of their children, by verbal instruction and punishments, so that they grow up in the way God wants.

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Parents are to discipline their children

Hebrews 12:7 KJV 1900
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
See also Dt 8:5; Heb 12:9–11

Parents discipline out of love for their children

Proverbs 13:24 KJV 1900
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
See also Pr 3:12

The means of parental discipline

Training

Proverbs 22:6 KJV 1900
Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
See also Ge 18:19; Dt 6:7; Pr 29:17; Eph 6:4; Col 3:21

Correction

Proverbs 22:15 KJV 1900
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
See also Pr 19:18; Pr 23:13–14; Pr 29:15

Verbal instruction

Ephesians 6:4 KJV 1900
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
See also Dt 4:9; Dt 6:7; Dt 6:20–25; Dt 11:19; Dt 31:13; Ps 78:5; Pr 1:8; Pr 6:20; 2 Ti 3:15

Punishment

Proverbs 23:13–14 KJV 1900
Withhold not correction from the child: For if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from hell.
See also Pr 22:15; Pr 29:15

The purpose of parental discipline is to impart wisdom

Proverbs 29:15 KJV 1900
The rod and reproof give wisdom: But a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
See also Pr 19:18; Pr 22:15; Pr 29:17; Heb 12:9; Heb 12:11

Examples of parents who neglected discipline

Eli

1 Samuel 3:13 KJV 1900
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

David

1 Kings 1:5–6 KJV 1900
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
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