Proverbs 13:24
Good News Translation
If you don't punish your children, you don't love them. If you do love them, you will correct them.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who spare the rod hate their children, but those who love them are diligent to discipline them.

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

New American Bible
Whoever spares the rod hates the child, but whoever loves will apply discipline.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Proverbs 3:12 Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence:

Proverbs 8:36 Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.

Proverbs 19:18 Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Proverbs 23:13,14 Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. . . .

Proverbs 29:15,17 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame. . . .

Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Hebrews 12:6-8 For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. . . .

Context
A Father's Discipline
23Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but for others it is gathered without judgment. 24He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.25The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:7
Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?

Deuteronomy 8:5
That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

Proverbs 3:12
Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence:

Proverbs 19:18
Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Proverbs 23:13
Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.

Proverbs 23:14
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame.

Proverbs 29:17
Instruct thy son and he shall refresh thee, and shall give delight to thy soul.

Proverbs 13:23
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