Proverbs 7:7
Revised Standard Version
7 and I have seen among the simple,
I have perceived among the youths,
a young man without sense,
Proverbs 22:6
Revised Standard Version
6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:15
Revised Standard Version
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13-14
Revised Standard Version
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
14 If you beat him with the rod
you will save his life from Sheol.
Proverbs 29:15
Revised Standard Version
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
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