Proverbs 23:15
My son, if your soul will become wise, my heart will be glad with you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
In Context
14You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.
16And my temperament will exult, when your lips will have spoken what is upright.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:10My son, if sinners should entice you, do not consent to them.
Proverbs 4:1Listen, sons, to the discipline of a father, and pay attention, so that you may know prudence.
Proverbs 15:20A wise son gladdens the father. But the foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 23:25Let your father and your mother be joyful, and may she who conceived you exult.
Jeremiah 32:41And I will rejoice over them, while I do good for them. And I will plant them in this land, in truth, with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
Matthew 9:2And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Be strengthened in faith, son; your sins are forgiven you.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:13-17
Parental Duties. 12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. 13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. 15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. 16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. Here is, 1. A parent instructing his child. He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book,… Read the whole commentary →