Proverbs 13:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:13-15
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    83%

    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.

    15 My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

  • Prov 19:18-19
    2 verses
    82%

    18 Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

    19 A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again.

  • Prov 22:15-16
    2 verses
    79%

    15 Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

    16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Heb 12:5-8
    4 verses
    79%

    5 And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;

    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.

  • Prov 3:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11 My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:

    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.

  • Deut 21:18-19
    2 verses
    77%

    18 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

    19 Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

  • Prov 29:15
    77%

    15 The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

  • Prov 19:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25 When blows overtake the man of pride, the simple will get sense; say sharp words to the wise, and knowledge will be made clear to him.

    26 He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

  • Prov 13:1
    75%

    1 A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

  • Prov 10:13
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    13 In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.

  • Prov 15:20
    74%

    20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

  • Prov 13:23
    74%

    23 There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

  • Prov 17:25
    74%

    25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

  • Prov 22:6
    74%

    6 If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

  • Prov 29:17
    73%

    17 Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.

  • Deut 8:5
    73%

    5 Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.

  • Prov 15:5
    73%

    5 A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
    73%

    14 I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

  • Prov 13:25
    72%

    25 The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

  • Eph 6:4
    72%

    4 And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

  • Prov 12:1
    72%

    1 A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.

  • Prov 29:21
    72%

    21 If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

  • Prov 23:24
    72%

    24 The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

  • Prov 22:8
    72%

    8 By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

  • Prov 17:21
    72%

    21 He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

  • Prov 26:3
    72%

    3 A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.

  • Prov 15:10
    71%

    10 There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

  • Job 5:17
    71%

    17 Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

  • Prov 19:13
    71%

    13 A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

  • Prov 1:8
    70%

    8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

  • Prov 10:1
    70%

    1 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

  • Hos 13:13
    70%

    13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

  • Prov 28:24
    70%

    24 He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

  • Ezek 18:14
    70%

    14 Now if he has a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and in fear does not do the same:

  • Prov 14:17
    70%

    17 He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

  • Prov 29:1
    70%

    1 A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.