Raising children to follow God's ways is a vital responsibility, as emphasized in Proverbs 22:6, which encourages training them from a young age. However, the Bible also acknowledges that some children may rebel against their upbringing, as seen in Deuteronomy 21:18-21, which outlines a procedure for dealing with a stubborn and rebellious son. The book of Proverbs, such as in 17:25, notes the sorrow and grief that disobedient children can bring to their parents. Ultimately, Hebrews 12:11 reminds us that discipline, though painful, can yield a harvest of righteousness and peace, emphasizing the importance of correction and guidance in a child's life, as also reflected in the fifth commandment in Exodus 20:12.
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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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.
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined, his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown, and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.