Verse 15

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

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:1 : 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
• Prov 17:25 : 25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.
• Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.
• Prov 22:6 : 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
• Prov 13:24 : 24 One who spares the rod hates his son, But one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
• Prov 17:21 : 21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
• Prov 29:17 : 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; Yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
• Prov 29:21 : 21 He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.
• 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.
• 1 Kgs 1:6 : 6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
• Prov 10:5 : 5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son, But he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.
• 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.