Proverbs 29:15
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 29:15The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
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From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.
having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.
He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.
A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.