Proverbs 19:18

New International Reader's Version

Train your children, because then there is hope. Don’t do anything to bring about their deaths.

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Those who don’t correct their children hate them. But those who love them are careful to correct them.

A person with a bad temper must pay for it. If you save them, you will have to do it again.

Children are going to do foolish things. But correcting them will drive that foolishness far away.

A person without self-control is like a city whose walls are broken through.

If a child is corrected, they become wise. But a child who is not corrected brings shame to their mother.

If you correct your children, they will give you peace. They will bring you the delights you desire.

Suppose someone has a very stubborn son. He doesn’t obey his father and mother. And he won’t listen to them when they try to correct him.