Proverbs 29:15

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Proverbs 29:17

Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest, yea, he will give delight to thy soul.

Proverbs 13:24

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Proverbs 17:21

He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 10:5

He who gathers in summer is a wise son. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

1 Kings 1:6

And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have thou done so? And he was also a very handsome man. And he was born after Absalom.

Proverbs 29:21

He who brings up his servant gently from childhood shall have him become a son at the last.

Proverbs 19:18

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