◄ Proverbs 23:13 ►
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Good News Translation
Don't hesitate to discipline children. A good spanking won't kill them.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not withhold discipline from your children; if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.

Contemporary English Version
Don't fail to correct your children. You won't kill them by being firm,

New American Bible
Do not withhold discipline from youths; if you beat them with the rod, they will not die.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

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

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. . . .

Context
True Riches
…12Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge. 13Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.…
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?

Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

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

Proverbs 23:12
Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:12
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