Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
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Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
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Matthew Henry · Verses 12–16
Here is a parent instructing his child to give his mind to the Scriptures. Here is a parent correcting his child: accompanied with prayer, and blessed of God, it may prove a means of preventing his destruction. Here is a parent encouraging his child, telling him what would be for his good. And what a comfort it would be, if herein he answered his expectation!
Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.
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