Parental Discipline

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

The bandages of a wound thou removest with the evil, Also the plagues of the inner parts of the heart!

And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe <FI>to him<Fi> through whom they come; — read the full passage →

Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof, — read the full passage →

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, — read the full passage →

Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings.

An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother. — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

A healed tongue <FI>is<Fi> a tree of life, And perverseness in it--a breach in the spirit.

Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,

`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ; — read the full passage →

What, then, <FI>is<Fi> the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision? — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe <FI>to him<Fi> through whom they come; — read the full passage →

I <FI>am<Fi> the man <FI>who<Fi> hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

`And this <FI>is<Fi> the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, — read the full passage →