Proverbs 23:13
Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
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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 19:18 : 18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.
- 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.
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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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24 One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
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11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
12 for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
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18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.
19 A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
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6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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15 The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
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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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17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
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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?
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?
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12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
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20 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
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10 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.
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4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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1 A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
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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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14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
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15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
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13 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
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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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3 A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!
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17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
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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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24 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
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27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
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23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
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1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
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25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
26 Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.
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19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
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16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
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13 The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.
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3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
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32 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
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5 A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
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17 He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
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21 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.
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18 Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
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4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'