Proverbs 23:13

World English Bible (2000)

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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:14-15
    2 verses
    89%

    14Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

    15My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

  • Prov 13:24
    83%

    24One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

  • Prov 22:15
    81%

    15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

  • Prov 3:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

    12for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

  • Prov 19:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.

    19A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

  • Prov 22:6
    77%

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

  • Prov 29:15
    76%

    15The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

  • Deut 21:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18If 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;

    19then 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;

  • Prov 29:17
    76%

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

  • Heb 12:5-9
    5 verses
    76%

    5and 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;

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

    7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

    8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

    9Furthermore, 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?

  • Prov 23:12
    76%

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

  • Exod 21:20
    74%

    20"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

  • Prov 15:10
    74%

    10There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

  • Eph 6:4
    74%

    4You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • Prov 13:1
    74%

    1A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

  • Deut 8:5
    74%

    5You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
    73%

    14I 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;

  • Exod 21:15
    73%

    15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

  • Prov 10:13
    73%

    13Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

  • Job 5:17
    72%

    17"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

  • Prov 26:3
    72%

    3A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

  • Exod 21:17
    72%

    17"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 1:8
    71%

    8My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Prov 23:24
    71%

    24The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

    27If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 5:23
    71%

    23He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

  • Prov 4:1
    70%

    1Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

  • Prov 17:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

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

    26Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

  • Prov 23:19
    70%

    19Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

  • Deut 24:16
    70%

    16The 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.

  • Hos 13:13
    70%

    13The 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.

  • Deut 25:3
    70%

    3Forty 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.

  • Ps 89:32
    70%

    32then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

  • Prov 15:5
    70%

    5A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

  • Prov 10:17
    70%

    17He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

  • Col 3:21
    69%

    21Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

  • Ps 118:18
    69%

    18Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

  • Matt 15:4
    69%

    4For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'