Proverbs 23:14 - Compare All Versions

Proverbs 23:14 NIV (New International Version)

Punish them with the rod and save them from death.

If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Physical discipline may well save them from death.

Punish him with a rod, and you will rescue his life from Sheol.

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

You shall beat him with a rod, And deliver his soul from hell.

Don’t be afraid to correct your young ones; a spanking won’t kill them. A good spanking, in fact, might save them from something worse than death.

You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol.

You shall swat him with the reed-like rod And rescue his life from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.