Proverbs 19:18
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
In Context
17He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.
19A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty, for if thou deliver [him], thou must do it yet again.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:24He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.
Proverbs 23:13Withhold not correction from the child, [for] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Hebrews 12:7Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:18
17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord ; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. Here is, I. The duty of charity described. It includes two things:—1. Compassion, which is the inward principle of charity in the heart; it is to have pity on the poor. Those that have not a penny for the poor, yet may have pity for them, a charitable concern and sympathy; and, if a man give all his goods to feed the poor and have not this charity in his heart, it is nothing, 1 Cor. xiii. 3 . We must draw… Read the whole commentary →