Proverbs 29:17
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 29:17Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
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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.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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.”
You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
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.
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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—
He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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.
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
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.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
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?
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.