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What does the Bible say about wayward children?

17 verses about wayward children, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about wayward children

Proverbs 22:6 — Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 10 votes
2 Corinthians 4:16 — For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 8 votes
Proverbs 16:7 — When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. 6 votes
Luke 15:13 — 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. 5 votes
2 Corinthians 4:7 — But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 5 votes
1 John 2:1 — 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: 5 votes
Jeremiah 3:14 — 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: 3 votes
Hosea 6:1 — 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. 3 votes
John 3:12 — If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 3 votes
Hebrews 6:1 — 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, 3 votes
James 1:6 — 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. 3 votes
1 John 4:16 — 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. 3 votes
Deuteronomy 28:1 — 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: 2 votes
Jeremiah 7:1 — The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 votes
Matthew 5:16 — Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 2 votes
Mark 7:13 — Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. 2 votes
Hebrews 11:1 — Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 votes

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Proverbs (2), Jeremiah (2), 2 Corinthians (2), Hebrews (2), 1 John (2), Deuteronomy (1), Hosea (1), Matthew (1), Mark (1), Luke (1), John (1), James (1)

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