Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
BSB
ASV
He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
KJV
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Then the provident guide of the soul has regard to this, that he may circumscribe her pleasures and cut off her desires, that she may not delight herself in them. That father's corrections are profitable, who spares not the rod, that he may render his son's soul obedient to salutary precepts. For he visits with a rod, as we read, I will visit their offences with the rod. And so he who smites the soul of the Israelites with a rod on the cheek, by this Divine punishment instructs her in the discipline of patience.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son - That is, if he hated him, he could not do him a greater disservice than not to correct him when his obstinacy or disobedience requires it. We have met with this subject already, and it is a favourite with Solomon. See Psa 34:10 (note) and Psa 37:3 (note). The Rev. Mr. Holden makes some sensible observations on this passage: “By the neglect of early correction the desires (passions) obtain ascendancy; the temper becomes irascible, peevish, querulous.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 29:15A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
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Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
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A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
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A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
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Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
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Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.