Proverbs 13:24–25

¹⁷Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

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

¹⁴Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

¹⁵The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

¹⁸Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

⁷If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

⁸But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

¹⁵Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

¹²For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

³⁶But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

²⁶If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

¹⁰The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

³The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

⁵Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

⁸For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

²⁴They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

¹¹So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

¹⁰For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

⁴⁸Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

¹³Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

¹⁴Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

³⁴So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

¹⁶A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

¹⁸The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

¹⁹They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

³Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.