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24 Whoever spares the rod hates the child,
    but whoever loves will apply discipline.(A)

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18 Discipline your son, for there is hope;
    but do not be intent on his death.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 19:18 The pain of disciplining the young cannot be compared with the danger no discipline may bring. The chief reason for disciplining the young is their capacity to change; excluded thereby are revenge and punishment.

15 Folly is bound to the heart of a youth,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it out.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:15 Folly is attached to children as the husk is attached to the grain. “Rod” here, as in v. 8, seems to be the flail. Discipline is the process of winnowing away the folly.

13 [a]Do not withhold discipline from youths;
    if you beat them with the rod, they will not die.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 23:13–14 The young will not die from instructional blows but from their absence, for (premature) death results from uncorrected folly. The sardonic humor means the exhortation is not to be taken literally, as an argument for corporal punishment. The next verses (vv. 15–16) are exceedingly tender toward the young.

15 The rod of correction gives wisdom,
    but uncontrolled youths disgrace their mothers.(A)

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Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?(A)

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