Discipline your children while there is hope; do not set your heart on their destruction.
Proverbs 13:24 - New Revised Standard Version Those who spare the rod hate their children, but those who love them are diligent to discipline them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. Common English Bible Those who withhold the rod hate their children, but the one who loves them applies discipline. Catholic Public Domain Version He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes. |
Discipline your children while there is hope; do not set your heart on their destruction.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy, but the rod of discipline drives it far away.
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.
Discipline your children, and they will give you rest; they will give delight to your heart.
for the Lord reproves the one he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”
“Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.
Know then in your heart that as a parent disciplines a child so the Lord your God disciplines you.