Proverbs 23:15
My son, if your heart has been wise, || My heart rejoices, even mine,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
In Context
14You strike him with a rod, || And you deliver his soul from Sheol.
16And my reins exult when your lips speak uprightly.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:10My son, if sinners entice you, do not be willing.
Proverbs 4:1Hear, you sons, the instruction of a father, || And give attention to know understanding.
Proverbs 15:20A wise son makes a father glad. And a foolish man is despising his mother.
Proverbs 23:25Your father and your mother rejoice, || Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.
Jeremiah 32:41and I have rejoiced over them to do them good, and have planted them in this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all My soul.”
Matthew 9:2and behold, they were bringing to Him a paralytic, laid on a bed, and Jesus having seen their faith, said to the paralytic, “Take courage, child, your sins have been forgiven.”
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 →