20 Bible Verses About Discipline

The Bible uses discipline for both training and correction. Deuteronomy 8:5 and Proverbs 3:11-12 compare God’s discipline to a father’s, and Hebrews 12:5-11 quotes Proverbs. Proverbs 13:24 applies the word to parents and 1 Corinthians 9:27 to Paul’s own body, and Matthew 18:15-17 sets out how a church corrects a member who sins. In Proverbs the usual noun is musar, which Strong’s defines as discipline, instruction, correction and chastisement, and the related verb yasar stands behind “disciplines” in Deuteronomy 8:5…