Proverbs 13:24 (BSB)

He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

From Proverbs 13. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 13:24

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 13:24: Note, 1. To the education of children in that which is good there is necessary a due correction of them for what is amiss; every child of ours is a child of Adam, and therefore has that foolishness bound up in its heart which calls for rebuke, more or less, the rod and reproof which give wisdom.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 13:24: He that spareth his rod hateth his son,.... Who withholds or withdraws his rod of correction, which is in his hand, which he has power to use, and ought to exercise at proper times; he, instead of loving his son, may be said to hate him; for such fond love is no better than hatred; and, if he really hated him, he could scarcely do...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 13:24: spareth--or, "withholds." rod--of correction. hateth--or, acts as if he hated him (compare Pro 3:12; Pro 8:36). chasteneth . . . betimes--or, "diligently seeks for him all useful discipline."
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 13:24: Pro 13:24 24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son, And he who loveth him visits him early with correction. The paedagogic rule of God, Pro 3:12, avails also for men, Pro 23:13., Pro 29:15. The rod represents here the means of punishment, the patria potestas.