What Does the Bible Say About Ungrateful Children?

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

2 Corinthians 12:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Deuteronomy 32:1-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb. For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; ascribe greatness to our God! “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he. They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation. ...

James 1:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Psalm 89:30-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules, if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes, but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness.

1 Corinthians 4:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Luke 5:1-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” ...

13 Bible Verses about Ungrateful Children

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 12:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 32:1-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 1:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 89:30-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 5:1-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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13 Bible Verses about Ungrateful Children

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1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 12:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 32:1-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 1:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 89:30-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 5:1-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote