Proverbs 23:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 5:5 : 5 That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  • 1 Cor 11:32 : 32 But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:12-13
    2 verses
    89%

    12 Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

    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.

  • Prov 13:24
    80%

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

  • Prov 22:15
    79%

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

  • Prov 19:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    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 29:17
    77%

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

  • Prov 29:15
    75%

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

  • Exod 21:20
    74%

    20 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

  • Prov 23:15
    74%

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

  • Prov 22:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

    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 3:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Heb 12:5-8
    4 verses
    73%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
    72%

    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;

  • Deut 8:5
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 21:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    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 26:3
    71%

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

  • Exod 21:15
    71%

    15 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

  • Eph 6:4
    71%

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

  • Ps 94:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12 Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

    13 So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

  • Ps 89:32
    70%

    32 Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

  • Prov 15:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

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

    11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!

  • Job 5:17
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 25:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.

    3 He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

  • Prov 10:13
    69%

    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 29:21
    69%

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

  • Job 36:18
    69%

    18 ...

  • Exod 21:17
    69%

    17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

  • Prov 13:1
    69%

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

  • Isa 30:31
    69%

    31 For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian will be broken, and the Lord's rod will be lifted up against him.

  • Job 14:22
    69%

    22 Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

  • Prov 22:8
    68%

    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.

  • Deut 13:9
    68%

    9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

  • Hos 13:13
    68%

    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 15:24
    68%

    24 Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

  • Prov 5:23
    68%

    23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

  • Ps 118:18
    68%

    18 The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

  • Prov 17:25
    68%

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