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Proverbs 23:13–14

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13Do not withhold discipline from a child,

if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.

14As for you, with the rod you shall beat him,

and his lifeh you will save from Sheol.i

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Footnotes

  1. hOr “soul,” or “inner self”
  2. iA term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Do not withhold discipline from a child;

if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

If you strike him with the rod,

you will save his soul from Sheol.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Do not withhold discipline from a child;

if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.

Punish them with the rod

and save them from death.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;

if you punish him with a rod, he will not die.

Punish him with a rod,

and you will rescue his life from Sheol.

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t fail to discipline your children.

The rod of punishment won’t kill them.

Physical discipline

may well save them from death.

KJV 1900King James Version

Withhold not correction from the child:

For if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod,

And shalt deliver his soul from hell.