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

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

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

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.

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

¹⁰ For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.

¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

³ Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

⁶ That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

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

⁵ Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

⁴ If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.