Keep and hear all these words which I command thee that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon those that fear him, and his righteousness unto the children’s children,
to such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring:
And all thy sons shall be taught of the Lord; and the peace of thy sons shall be multiplied.
¶ He that cuts short chastening hates his son, but he that loves him chastens him early.
¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, but do not stir up thy soul to destroy him.
¶ Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
¶ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Do not withhold correction from the child; for if thou shall beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
Fathers, provoke not your children lest they become disheartened.