Proverbs 19:18
Discipline 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.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 13:24Those 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.
Proverbs 23:13Do not refuse to discipline your children; if you punish/spank them, it will not cause them to die,
Proverbs 29:15If children are punished/spanked and reproved/warned, they become wise; but if they are allowed to do whatever they want to do, they do things that cause their mothers to be ashamed of them.
Hebrews 12:7It is in order that God may discipline you that he requires you to endure the disagreeable things that happen to you. When God disciplines you he is treating you as a father treats his children. All fathers [RHQ] discipline their children [LIT].
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 →