Proverbs 19:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ Discipline your children while there is hope; do not set your heart on their destruction.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Chasten thy son while there is hope, And let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Discipline your son while there is hope, but do not [indulge your angry resentments by undue chastisements and] set yourself to his ruin.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Discipline your children while there is hope, but don’t plan to kill them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Teach your son; do not despair. But do not set your soul toward putting him to death.

Proverbs 19:18 Cross References

Proverbs 13:24

Those who spare the rod hate their children, but those who love them are diligent to discipline them.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far away.

Proverbs 29:17

Discipline your children, and they will give you rest; they will give delight to your heart.

Proverbs 19:19

A violent-tempered person will pay the penalty; if you effect a rescue, you will only have to do it again.

Deuteronomy 21:18

“If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him,

Proverbs 25:28

Like a city breached, without walls, is one who lacks self-control.