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Direct your children onto the right path,
    and when they are older, they will not leave it.

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(A)Train up a child in the way he should go;
    even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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15 A youngster’s heart is filled with foolishness,
    but physical discipline will drive it far away.

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

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13 Don’t fail to discipline your children.
    The rod of punishment won’t kill them.
14 Physical discipline
    may well save them from death.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 23:14 Hebrew from Sheol.

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.

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15 To discipline a child produces wisdom,
    but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.

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15 (A)The rod and reproof give wisdom,
    but a child left to himself (B)brings shame to his mother.

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17 Discipline your children, and they will give you peace of mind
    and will make your heart glad.

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17 (A)Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;
    he will give delight to your heart.

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