Proverbs 13:24
People who don't discipline their children hate them. Those who love their children carefully discipline them.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
In Context
23The unplowed ground of the poor could produce a lot of food, but it's stolen through injustice.
25The good eat until they're full; but the belly of the wicked is empty.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:12for the Lord corrects those he loves, as a father corrects a son who pleases him.
Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son while there's still hope, but don't kill him.
Proverbs 23:13Don't keep from disciplining your children—a beating won't kill them.
Proverbs 29:17Discipline your children and they won't give you any worries; they will make you very happy.
Hebrews 12:6The Lord disciplines everyone he loves, and he punishes everyone he welcomes as his child.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:24
23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment. See here, 1. How a small estate may be improved by industry, so that a man, by making the best of every thing, may live comfortably upon it: Much food is in the tillage of the poor, the poor farmers, that have but a little, but take pains with that little and husband it well. Many make it an excuse for their idleness that they have but a little to work on, a very little to be doing with; but the less compass the field… Read the whole commentary →