Proverbs 19:18
Good News Translation
Discipline your children while they are young enough to learn. If you don't, you are helping them destroy themselves.

New Revised Standard Version
Discipline your children while there is hope; do not set your heart on their destruction.

Contemporary English Version
Correct your children before it's too late; if you don't punish them, trouble will come their way.

New American Bible
Discipline your son, for there is hope; but do not be intent on his death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

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Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Proverbs 23:14,15 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell. . . .

Proverbs 29:15,17 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame. . . .

Hebrews 12:7-10 Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct? . . .

Context
The Man of Integrity
17He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will repay him. 18Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.19He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away, he shall add another thing.…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:7
Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?

Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

Proverbs 19:19
He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away, he shall add another thing.

Proverbs 23:13
Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame.

Proverbs 29:17
Instruct thy son and he shall refresh thee, and shall give delight to thy soul.

Proverbs 19:17
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