Bible Verses About Wayward Children
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for wayward children, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 273 votes, led by Proverbs 22:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Wayward Children
Proverbs 22:641 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
2 Corinthians 4:16-1832 votes
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Proverbs 16:726 votes
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
1 John 2:121 votes
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Luke 15:13-1720 votes
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
2 Corinthians 4:7-920 votes
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
John 3:1214 votes
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
Jeremiah 3:14-2413 votes
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
1 John 4:1613 votes
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Jeremiah 7:1-3411 votes
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Hosea 6:1-1111 votes
Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Hebrews 6:1-2011 votes
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Deuteronomy 28:1-6810 votes
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
Matthew 5:1610 votes
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Mark 7:1310 votes
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
James 1:610 votes
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
What does the Bible say about wayward children?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 22:6 on the subject of wayward children. Across 273 votes, 16 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Proverbs 16:7, 1 John 2:1. This page lists all 16 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.