Proverbs 19:18
Chasten thy sonne while there is hope, and let not thy soule spare for his murmuring.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 13:24He that spareth his rodde, hateth his sonne: but he that loueth him, chasteneth him betime.
Proverbs 23:13Withhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall not die.
Proverbs 29:15The rodde and correction giue wisdome: but a childe set a libertie, maketh his mother ashamed.
Hebrews 12:7If ye endure chastening, God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes: for what sonne is it whom the father chasteneth not?
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 →