The Bible teaches that parents have a responsibility to discipline their children, as it is an act of love and a means of guiding them towards a path of righteousness. In Proverbs, wisdom is imparted to parents on how to raise their children, with verses such as Proverbs 23:13-14 and Proverbs 13:24 emphasizing the importance of discipline in shaping a child's character. Proverbs 22:6 and Proverbs 22:15 also highlight the role of parental guidance in helping children develop self-discipline and avoid foolishness. By disciplining their children, parents can help them develop into responsible and wise individuals, as encouraged in Proverbs 29:15.
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Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
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.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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.