Proverbs 23:13-27

¹³Withhold not correction from the child; for though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

¹⁴Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.

¹⁵My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine;

¹⁶Yea, my reins will rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

¹⁷Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of the LORD all the day;

¹⁸For surely there is a future; and thy hope shall not be cut off.

¹⁹Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.

²⁰Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of flesh;

²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

²²Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

²³Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

²⁴The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; and he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

²⁵Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her that bore thee rejoice.

²⁶My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

²⁷For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit.