¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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

¹⁷ Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

²¹ He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

²⁴ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

¹⁰ For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

¹¹ Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

²¹ He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

⁵ He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

⁶ And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.