Dictionary of Bible Themes – 8232 discipline, in the family
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8232 discipline, in the family

8232 discipline, in the family

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

Parents are to discipline their children

Heb 12:7 See also Dt 8:5; Heb 12:9-11

Parents discipline out of love for their children

Pr 13:24 See also Pr 3:12

The means of parental discipline

Training Pr 22:6 See also Ge 18:19; Dt 6:7; Pr 29:17; Eph 6:4; Col 3:21

Correction Pr 22:15 See also Pr 19:18; Pr 23:13-14; Pr 29:15

Verbal instruction Eph 6:4 See also Dt 4:9; Dt 6:7,20-25; Dt 11:19; Dt 31:13; Ps 78:5; Pr 1:8; Pr 6:20; 2Ti 3:15

Punishment Pr 23:13-14 See also Pr 22:15; Pr 29:15

The purpose of parental discipline is to impart wisdom

Pr 29:15 See also Pr 19:18; Pr 22:15; Pr 29:17; Heb 12:9,11

Examples of parents who neglected discipline

Eli 1Sa 3:13

David 1Ki 1:5-6

See also

5666children, needs
5680family
5685fathers, responsibilities
5718mothers
5731parents
8476self-discipline

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