Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Rod

Proverbs 29:17
Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 23:13
Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.
Hebrews 12:10
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

A child

Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
Proverbs 17:21
He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.
1 Kings 1:6
And his father had not rebuked him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he also was a very handsome man; and his mother bore him after Absalom.

General references

Proverbs 13:24
He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.
Proverbs 23:13
Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 29:17
Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.