Proverbs 23:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Do not withhold discipline from your children; if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child: For if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Withhold not discipline from the child; for if you strike and punish him with the [reedlike] rod, he will not die.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

Common English Bible

¹³ Don’t withhold instruction from children; if you strike them with a rod, they won’t die.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.

Proverbs 23:13 Cross References

Proverbs 13:24

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

Proverbs 19:18

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

Proverbs 22:15

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

Proverbs 23:12

Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 29:15

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

Proverbs 29:17

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

Hebrews 12:7

Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children, for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?