Proverbs 19:18
Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 13:24 : 24 One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
- Prov 29:15 : 15 The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
- Prov 29:17 : 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
- Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Prov 23:13-14 : 13 Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. 14 Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.
- Heb 12:7-9 : 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
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24 One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
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11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
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17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
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18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
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12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
14 Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.
15 My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:
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5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.
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5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."
7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?
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26 He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
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25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
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20 A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
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17 "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
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8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
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20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.