Verse 24

He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 29:15 : 15 The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.
• Prov 19:18 : 18 Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.
• Prov 22:15 : 15 Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.
• Prov 23:13-14 : 13 Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him. 14 Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
• Prov 29:17 : 17 Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.
• Prov 3:12 : 12 For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.
• Heb 12:6-8 : 6 For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod. 7 It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father? 8 But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
• Luke 14:26 : 26 And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
• Prov 8:36 : 36 But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.