13Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.


In Context

10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

13 Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

14 Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

15 My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

Proverbs 23:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:13Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:13Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:13Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:13Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:13Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beat him with the rod, he shall not die.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:13Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:13Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.