¹⁸ Discipline your son, for there is hope; Don't be a willing party to his death.

²⁴ One who spares the rod hates his son, But one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

¹⁵ The rod of correction gives wisdom, But a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.

¹³ Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

¹⁴ Punish him with the rod, And save his soul from Sheol.

¹⁷ Correct your son, and he will give you peace; Yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

⁷ It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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