Proverbs 19:18
Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.
Bible in Basic English
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 on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:24He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.
Proverbs 23:13Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.
Hebrews 12:7It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
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 →