Bible Verses About Bad Children
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for bad children, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,345 votes, led by Deuteronomy 21:18-21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Bad Children
Deuteronomy 21:18-21231 votes
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Proverbs 29:15218 votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Proverbs 22:15208 votes
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Colossians 3:20179 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Proverbs 13:24164 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 22:6162 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 19:18154 votes
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Proverbs 17:25152 votes
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Exodus 20:12148 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Exodus 21:15144 votes
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Ephesians 6:1-3138 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 30:17136 votes
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Proverbs 20:11128 votes
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
2 Timothy 3:2122 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Ephesians 6:4104 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Hebrews 12:11102 votes
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Proverbs 10:1101 votes
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Ephesians 6:1-496 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Matthew 15:493 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Proverbs 23:13-1485 votes
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Exodus 21:1783 votes
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Proverbs 29:1771 votes
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Proverbs 15:566 votes
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 20:2066 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
1 Corinthians 15:3365 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
What does the Bible say about bad children?
Readers most often cite Deuteronomy 21:18-21 on the subject of bad children. Across 4,345 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 29:15, Proverbs 22:15, Colossians 3:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.