Proverbs 13 - Those who do not discipline their son, have no love for him. 2025

Prov 13:24
He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

Those who do not discipline their son, have no love for him. Discipline by a loving father is very important and it is the same way our heavenly Father disciplines His own sons.

Heb. 12:5-11 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD,
NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;

6FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES,
AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”

7It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. 11All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Proverbs speaks a lot of disciplining your children.

Prov. 19:18 Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death.

Prov 22:15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.

Prov 23:13-14 Do not hold back discipline from the child, Although you beat him with the rod, he will not die. 14You shall beat him with the rod, And deliver his soul from Sheol.

Prov 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.

Prov 29:17 Correct your son, and he will give you comfort; He will also delight your soul.

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