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⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

²¹Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.

²⁴He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.

¹⁸Teach your son; do not despair. But do not set your soul toward putting him to death.

¹³Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.

⁶And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart. ⁷And you shall explain them to your sons. And you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on a journey, when lying down and when rising up.

³Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb. ⁴Like arrows in the hand of the powerful, so are the sons of those who have been cast out. ⁵Blessed is the man who has filled his desire from these things. He will not be confounded when he speaks to his enemies at the gate.

¹⁷Teach your son, and he will refresh you, and he will give delight to your soul.

⁸Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,

⁸Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother, ⁹so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck.

²⁶She has opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue.

¹⁵The rod and its correction distribute wisdom. But the child who is left to his own will, brings shame to his mother.

¹¹My son, do not discard the discipline of the Lord, and do not fall away when you are corrected by him. ¹²For whomever the Lord loves, he corrects, and just as a father does with a son, he wins him over.

⁷Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct? ⁸But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons. ⁹Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live? ¹⁰And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification. ¹¹Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.

¹Listen, sons, to the discipline of a father, and pay attention, so that you may know prudence. ²I will bestow upon you a good gift. Do not relinquish my law. ³For I, too, was the son of my father, tender and an only son in the sight of my mother. ⁴And he taught me, and he also said: “Let your heart accept my words. Keep my precepts, and you shall live.

¹⁴Yet truly, you should remain in those things which you have learned and which have been entrusted to you. For you know from whom you have learned them. ¹⁵And, from your infancy, you have known the Sacred Scriptures, which are able to instruct you toward salvation, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹²Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.

⁵calling to mind the same faith, which is in you unfeigned, which also first dwelt in your grandmother, Lois, and in your mother, Eunice, and also, I am certain, in you.