The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

Severe discipline is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof will die.

The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever hears reproof acquires understanding.

The fear of the Lord provides wise instruction, and before honor comes humility.

Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.

Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.

If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Acquire truth and do not sell it – wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.

When I saw this, I gave careful consideration to it; I received instruction from what I saw:

O Lord, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline.

The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,

Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

He was wounded because of our rebellious deeds, crushed because of our sins; he endured punishment that made us well; because of his wounds we have been healed.

“It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.”