²⁴ Those who spare the rod hate their children,
    but those who love them are diligent to discipline them.^(A)

¹⁷ Discipline your children, and they will give you rest;
    they will give delight to your heart.^(A)

¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom,
    but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.^(A)

¹³ Do not withhold discipline from your children;
    if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.^(A)
14 If you beat them with the rod,
    you will save their lives from Sheol.

¹⁸ Discipline your children while there is hope;
    do not set your heart on their destruction.^(A)

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline drives it far away.^(A)

¹² for the Lord reproves the one he loves,
    as a father the son in whom he delights.^(A)

⁶ for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves
    and chastises every child whom he accepts.”^(A)

³⁶ but those who miss me injure themselves;
    all who hate me love death.”^(A)