24 Whoever spares the rod(A) hates their children,
    but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline(B) them.(C)

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17 Discipline your children, and they will give you peace;
    they will bring you the delights you desire.(A)

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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.(A)

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18 Discipline your children, for in that there is hope;
    do not be a willing party to their death.(A)

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15 A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom,
    but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.(A)

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

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12 because the Lord disciplines those he loves,(A)
    as a father the son he delights in.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:12 Hebrew; Septuagint loves, / and he chastens everyone he accepts as his child

because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,(A)
    and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”[a](B)

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.(C) For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline(D)—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:6 Prov. 3:11,12 (see Septuagint)

36 But those who fail to find me harm themselves;(A)
    all who hate me love death.”(B)

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26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.(A)

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