Proverbs 13:24
Those who do not punish their children for bad behavior do not really love them; those who love their children start to discipline them when the children are still young.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
In Context
23Sometimes poor people’s fields produce plenty of food, but unjust people take away all that food.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:12I say that because it is the people whom Yahweh loves that he corrects/reproves, just like parents correct/reprove their sons whom they love.
Proverbs 19:18Discipline your children while they are young, while you still hope that they will learn to behave as they should; if you do not discipline them, you are helping them to destroy themselves.
Proverbs 23:13Do not refuse to discipline your children; if you punish/spank them, it will not cause them to die,
Proverbs 29:17If you discipline your children, they will no longer do things that will cause you to be worried; instead, they will do things that will delight you [SYN].
Hebrews 12:6because it is everyone whom he loves whom the Lord disciplines, and he punishes everyone whom he accepts 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 →