Lack of regard for authority or rulership.The child who exhibits a rebellious streak may be doing so for a variety of reasons. Harsh, unloving, and critical parenting will nearly always result in rebellion of some sort.
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. | Exodus 21:17
A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. | Proverbs 15:5
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die. | Mark 7:9-10
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. | Matthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. | Mark 13:12
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land. | Ephesians 6:1-3
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 23:13-14
For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. | Romans 5:19
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king. | 1 Samuel 15:23
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy. | 2 Timothy 3:2
For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him. | Leviticus 20:9
In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. | Ephesians 2:2
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. | Ephesians 5:6
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. | John 3:1-36
On account of these the wrath of God is coming. | Colossians 3:6
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. | James 4:17
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents. | Romans 1:30
They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. | Luke 12:53
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures. | Proverbs 30:17
The blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known. | Deuteronomy 11:27-28
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin. | James 4:17
Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. | Exodus 21:15
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. | Proverbs 13:24
Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. | James 5:2
You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me. | Deuteronomy 5:9
Finally, there is comfort in the knowledge that strong-willed children who are trained well often grow up to be high-achieving, successful adults. Many rebellious children have turned into bold, committed Christians who use their considerable talents to serve the Lord they have come to love and respect through the efforts of their patient and diligent parents