spanking your child

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

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

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

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.

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.

¹⁵Foolishness has been bound to the heart of a child, and a rod of discipline shall cause it to flee.

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

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

²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

¹⁹Those whom I love, I rebuke and chastise. Therefore, be zealous and do penance.

¹A wise son is the doctrine of his father. But he who ridicules does not listen when he is reproved.

⁴Listen, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord. ⁵You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. 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. ⁸And you shall bind them like a sign on your hand, and they shall be placed and shall move between your eyes. ⁹And you shall write them at the threshold and on the doors of your house.

³⁰The bruise of a wound, as well as scourges, shall wipe away evils in the more secret places of the inner self.