Verse 15

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

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 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.
• 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.
• John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• Heb 12:10-11 : 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. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
• Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.