The Results of Disciplining with Love (Proverbs 23:13-28)

 ¹³ Don’t fail to discipline your children.
      They won’t die if you spank them.
 ¹⁴ Physical discipline
      may well save them from death.^[c]
 15 My child,^[d] if your heart is wise,
      my own heart will rejoice!
 ¹⁶ Everything in me will celebrate
      when you speak what is right.
 ¹⁷ Don’t envy sinners,
      but always continue to fear the Lord.
 ¹⁸ You will be rewarded for this;
      your hope will not be disappointed.
 ¹⁹ My child, listen and be wise:
      Keep your heart on the right course.
 ²⁰ Do not carouse with drunkards
      or feast with gluttons,
 ²¹ for they are on their way to poverty,
      and too much sleep clothes them in rags.
 ²² Listen to your father, who gave you life,
      and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
 ²³ Get the truth and never sell it;
      also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.
 ²⁴ The father of godly children has cause for joy.
      What a pleasure to have children who are wise.^[e]
 25 So give your father and mother joy!
      May she who gave you birth be happy.
 ²⁶ O my son, give me your heart.
      May your eyes take delight in following my ways.
 ²⁷ A prostitute is a dangerous trap;
      a promiscuous woman is as dangerous as falling into a narrow well.
 ²⁸ She hides and waits like a robber,
      eager to make more men unfaithful.