Proverbs 19:18
Discipline your son while there's still hope, but don't kill him.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
In Context
19People who often get angry have to pay the penalty; if you help them, you'll have to do it again.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:24People who don't discipline their children hate them. Those who love their children carefully discipline them.
Proverbs 23:13Don't keep from disciplining your children—a beating won't kill them.
Proverbs 29:15Discipline and correction provide wisdom, but a son left undisciplined is an embarrassment to his mother.
Hebrews 12:7Be patient as you experience God's discipline because he is treating you as his children. What child doesn't experience a father's discipline?
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 →