Proverbs 22:15
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline drives it far away.(A)
Proverbs 13:24
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24 Those who spare the rod hate their children,
but those who love them are diligent to discipline them.(A)
Proverbs 23:13-14
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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.
Proverbs 29:15
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15 The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.(A)
Proverbs 19:18
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18 Discipline your children while there is hope;
do not set your heart on their destruction.(A)
Hebrews 12:10-11
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10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share his holiness.(A) 11 Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.(B)
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Proverbs 29:17
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17 Discipline your children, and they will give you rest;
they will give delight to your heart.(A)
Ephesians 2:3
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3 All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,(A)
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Psalm 51:5
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5 Indeed, I was born guilty,
a sinner when my mother conceived me.(A)
John 3:6
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6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Job 14:4
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4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
No one can.(A)
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