¹⁵ Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; `But' the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

²⁴ He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child; `For' if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

¹⁸ Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; nd set not thy heart on his destruction.

¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days chastened `us' as seemed good to them; but he for `our' profit, that `we' may be partakers of his holiness.

¹¹ All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, `even the fruit' of righteousness.

³ among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

¹⁷ Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.