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Proverbs 23:13–14

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Saying 13

13Do not withhold discipline from a child;

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

14Punish them with the rod

and save them from death.g

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  1. gSee Pr 13:24; See 19:18

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.

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.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Do not withhold discipline from a child,

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

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

and his life you will save from Sheol.

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.