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Proverbs 23:12-16
English Standard Version
Proverbs 23:12-16
English Standard Version
12 Apply your heart to instruction
and your ear to words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold (A)discipline from a child;
(B)if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14 If you strike him with the rod,
you will (C)save his soul from Sheol.
15 (D)My son, if your heart is wise,
my heart too will be glad.
16 My (E)inmost being[a] will exult
when your lips speak (F)what is right.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:16 Hebrew My kidneys
Proverbs 23:12-16
New International Version
Proverbs 23:12-16
New International Version
Saying 12
12 Apply your heart to instruction(A)
and your ears to words of knowledge.
Saying 13
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
14 Punish them with the rod
and save them from death.(B)
Saying 14
15 My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad indeed;
16 my inmost being will rejoice
when your lips speak what is right.(C)
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