You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. (Exodus 18:20)

Therefore you shall love The LORD your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always. (Deuteronomy 11:1)

He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows. (Psalm 94:10)

7 The fear of The LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. 8 My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching; (Proverbs 1:7-8)

30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes. 32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them. 33 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm. (Proverbs 1:30-33)

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. (2 Timothy 1:7)

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding. (Proverbs 23:23)

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come. (1 Timothy 4:8)

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city. (Proverbs 16:32)

15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.17 Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. (Ephesians 5:15–17)

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer. (1 Peter 4:7)

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Peter 5:8)

1 But say the things which fit sound doctrine, 2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance, 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, 4 that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed. (Titus 2:1–5)

5 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; 6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness; 7 and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. 11 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:5–11)

16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, 17 that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16–17)

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law. (Psalm 119:18)

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart. (Psalm 119:34)

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool. (Proverbs 17:10)

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. (Proverbs 12:1)

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise. (Proverbs 15:12)

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.” (Psalm 40:8)

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it. (Proverbs 8:33)

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall. (Proverbs 10:8)

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke. (Proverbs 13:1)

67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word. 68 You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes. (Psalm 119:67–68)

19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. (1 Corinthians 6:19–20)

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us. (1 John 3:24)

1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. (Romans 12:1)

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News; (Philippians 1:27)

10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. (Romans 8:10–14)

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit. 26 Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another. (Galatians 5:22–26)

17 for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. (Romans 14:17)

16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. (Galatians 5:16)

2 Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2)

5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be. 8 Those who are in the flesh can’t please God. (Romans 8:5–8)

13 Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— 14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior, 16 because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:13–16)

23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it. 24 Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win. 25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air, 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified. (1 Corinthians 9:23–27)

4 The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. 7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. 9 But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion. 10 But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband 11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. (1 Corinthians 7:4–11)

20 If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, 21 “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”  22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? 23 These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh. (Colossians 2:20-23)

14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children! (2 Peter 2:14)

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken The LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, The LORD of Armies. (Jeremiah 2:19)

5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so The LORD your God disciplines you. 6 You shall keep the commandments of The LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. (Deuteronomy 8:5–6)

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death. (Proverbs 19:18)

4 You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4)

8 My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching; 9 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck. (Proverbs 1:8–9)

1 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; 2 for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law. (Proverbs 4:1–2)

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. 21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. 22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, 24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue. (Proverbs 6:20–24)

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him. (Proverbs 13:24)

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence. (Proverbs 15:5)

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him. (Proverbs 22:15)

12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge. 13 Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. 14 Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol. (Proverbs 23:12–14)

15 The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother. 16 When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall. 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul. (Proverbs 29:15–17)

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. (Lamentations 3:27)

12 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end. 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them. 14 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.” (1 Samuel 3:12–14)

5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom. 7 He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him. 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. (1 Kings 1:5–8)

 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’ (Isaiah 45:9)

18 “I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are The LORD my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’ (Jeremiah 31:18–19)

27 For the dill isn’t threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. 28 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it. 29 This also comes out from The LORD of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom. (Isaiah 28:26–29)

He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. (2 Samuel 22:35)

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored. (Proverbs 13:18)

32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: 33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, 34 so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man. (Proverbs 24:32–34)

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way. Whoever hates reproof shall die. (Proverbs 15:10)

27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge. (Proverbs 19:27)

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint. (Proverbs 25:28)

6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant. 7 I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction,” so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they rose early and corrupted all their doings. (Zephaniah 3:6–7)

23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you. 24 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention; 25 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof; 26 I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you, 27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you. 28 Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me, 29 because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of The LORD. 30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. (Proverbs 1:23–30)

1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! 2 She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in The LORD. She didn’t draw near to her God. (Zephaniah 3:1–2)

11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed, 12 and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. 13 I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me! 14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.” (Proverbs 5:11–14)

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray. (Proverbs 10:17)

14 I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men; 15 but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. 16 Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever. (2 Samuel 7:14–16)

2 Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of The LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm, 3 his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how The LORD has destroyed them to this day; (Deuteronomy 11:2–5)

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent. (Revelation 3:19)

5 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; 6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.” 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. (Hebrews 12:5–13)

9 Honor The LORD with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase; 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. 11 My son, don’t despise The LORD’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction; 12 for whom The LORD loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights. (Proverbs 3:9–12)

1 O LORD, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath. 2 Have mercy on me, The LORD, for I am faint. The LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled. (Psalm 6:1–2)

1 O LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. 2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. (Psalm 38:1–2)

11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath. Selah. (Psalm 39:11)

11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. (Job 26:11)

75 O LORD, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. 76 Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant. (Psalm 119:75–76)

O LORD, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them. (Isaiah 26:16)

12 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. 13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey The LORD your God’s voice; then The LORD will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you. (Jeremiah 26:12–13)

13 Tear your heart and not your garments, and turn to The LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity. (Joel 2:13)

10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it. (Jonah 3:10)

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) 

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds. (Psalm 141:5)

12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O God, and teach out of your law, 13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked. (Psalm 94:12–13

32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. 33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. (1 Corinthians 11:32–33)

7 One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. 8 Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you. 9 Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning. 10 The fear of The LORD is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:7–10)

31 The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise. 32 He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding. 33 The fear of The LORD teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility. (Proverbs 15:31–33)

20 He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in The LORD is blessed. 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction. 22 Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly. 23 The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. (Proverbs 16:20–23)

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end. (Proverbs 19:20)

Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge. (Proverbs 19:25)

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge. (Proverbs 21:11)

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. (Luke 6:40)

1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. (Galatians 6:1)

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him. Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, (2 Timothy 2:25)

1 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men. (Titus 3:1–2)