Proverbs 23:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ If you beat them with the rod, you will save their lives from Sheol.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ You shall whip him with the rod and deliver his life from Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Strike them with a rod, and you will save their lives from the grave.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

Proverbs 23:14 Cross References

Proverbs 13:24

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

Proverbs 22:15

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

1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

1 Corinthians 5:5

you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.