Proverbs 19:18
Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
In Context
19A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:24He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.
Proverbs 23:13Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.
Hebrews 12:7If all of you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens 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 →