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Proverbs 23:14

Proverbs 23:14 is verse 14 of Proverbs chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

Sheol is the place of the dead.

Proverbs 23:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.

13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

14 Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

15 My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.

16 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

1 Corinthians 5:5
hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.