Proverbs 19:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not spare for his crying.

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  • Prov 13:24 : 24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
  • Prov 29:15 : 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
  • Prov 29:17 : 17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
  • Prov 23:13-14 : 13 Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die. 14 You shall beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
  • Heb 12:7-9 : 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but he for our benefit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 13:24
    82%

    24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

  • Prov 19:19
    80%

    19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment; for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.

  • Prov 3:11-12
    2 verses
    80%

    11 My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; nor be weary of his correction:

    12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

  • Prov 29:17
    79%

    17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul.

  • Deut 21:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,

    19 Then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place;

  • Prov 23:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

    13 Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

    14 You shall beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

    15 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

  • Prov 22:6
    77%

    6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Deut 8:5
    76%

    5 You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

  • Heb 12:5-8
    4 verses
    76%

    5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him:

    6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."

    7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

    8 But if you are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

  • Prov 19:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26 He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

    27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 22:15
    76%

    15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

  • Eph 6:4
    75%

    4 And, you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  • Prov 29:15
    75%

    15 The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

  • Prov 17:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

    26 Also, to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for their uprightness.

  • Prov 15:20
    74%

    20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

  • Job 5:17
    74%

    17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty:

  • Prov 1:8
    73%

    8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • Prov 23:19
    73%

    19 Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

  • Job 36:18
    73%

    18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he takes you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.

  • Prov 27:11
    72%

    11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may have an answer for him who reproaches me.

  • Prov 13:1
    72%

    1 A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

  • Prov 29:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

    21 He who delicately brings up his servant from childhood shall have him as a son in the end.

  • Prov 19:17
    72%

    17 He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, and that which he has given will He pay him again.

  • Prov 6:20
    72%

    20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:

  • Hos 13:13
    72%

    13 The sorrows of a laboring woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • Ezek 18:14
    72%

    14 Now, if he begets a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers and does not do such like,

  • Col 3:21
    72%

    21 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.

  • Prov 19:13
    72%

    13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

  • Prov 17:21
    72%

    21 He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

  • Prov 23:26
    71%

    26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

  • Prov 23:22
    71%

    22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 10:1
    71%

    1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

  • Prov 15:5
    71%

    5 A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who regards reproof is prudent.

  • Prov 20:20
    71%

    20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

  • Prov 1:15
    70%

    15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Prov 4:20
    70%

    20 My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.