Proverbs 13:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ He who spares his rod [of discipline] hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines diligently and punishes him early. [Prov. 19:18; 22:15; 23:13; 29:15, 17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Those who withhold the rod hate their children, but the one who loves them applies discipline.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ He that spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes.

Proverbs 13:24 Cross References

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction.

Proverbs 22:15

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

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 29:17

Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Proverbs 3:12

for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Proverbs 8:36

but he who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

Luke 14:26

“If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Deuteronomy 8:5

Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.