Proverbs 29:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 29:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs 29:17
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Topics

Babes Birth Children Commandments Correction Duty Family Father

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15)

Parents, in educating their children, must consider, 1. The benefit of due correction. They must not only tell their children what is good and evil, but they must chide them, and correct them too, if need be, when they either neglect that which is good or do that which is evil. If a reproof will serve without the rod, it is well, but the rod must never be used without a rational and grave reproof;…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. (Compare Pr 13:24; 23:13).