⁷ It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

¹⁸ Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

¹⁵ The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

²⁴ He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

⁵ Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.

¹⁷ Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.

¹³ Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

¹⁴ Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.

²² Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

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²⁴ Now by the living Lord, who has given me my place on the seat of David my father, and made me one of a line of kings, as he gave me his word, truly Adonijah will be put to death this day.

²⁵ And King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he made an attack on him and put him to death.

⁶ Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.

¹⁴ I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

¹³ And you are to say to him that I will send punishment on his family for ever, for the sin which he had knowledge of; because his sons have been cursing God and he had no control over them.

³⁴ And this will be the sign to you, which will come on Hophni and Phinehas, your sons; death will overtake them on the same day.

²⁹ Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?

¹⁵ Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.