Verse 15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 13:24 : 24 Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.
• Prov 19:18 : 18 Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.
• Prov 23:13-14 : 13 Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. 14 Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.
• Prov 29:15 : 15 A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
• Prov 29:17 : 17 Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.
• John 3:6 : 6 that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,
• Heb 12:10-11 : 10 for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; 11 and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.
• Job 14:4 : 4 Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.