Proverbs 22:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

All children are foolish, but firm correction will make them change.

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There's no way a human can be completely pure.

I have sinned and done wrong since the day I was born.

If you love your children, you will correct them; if you don't love them, you won't correct them.

Correct your children before it's too late; if you don't punish them, you are destroying them.

A severe beating can knock all of the evil out of you!

Correct your children, and they will be wise; children out of control disgrace their mothers.

If you correct your children, they will bring you peace and happiness.

Humans give life to their children. Yet only God's Spirit can change you into a child of God.

Once we were also ruled by the selfish desires of our bodies and minds. We had made God angry, and we were going to be punished like everyone else.