¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

²⁴ Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

¹⁵ A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

¹³ Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

¹⁴ Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

¹⁸ Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

¹⁰ for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

¹¹ and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

³ among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

⁶ that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

¹⁷ Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

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