Proverbs 23:13 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:13

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:12-16: Here is, 1. A parent instructing his child. He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book, and especially to the scriptures and his catechism, to attend to the words of knowledge, by which he might come to know his duty, and danger, and interest, and not to think it enough to give them the hearing, but to apply his...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:13: Withhold not correction from the child,.... When he has committed a fault, and correction is necessary; for to spare it is the ruin of the child, and no proof of true affection in the parent, but the reverse; see Pro 13:24; for, if thou beatest him with a rod, he shall not die; if he be beaten moderately, there is no danger of his dying...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:13: While there is little danger that the use of the "divine ordinance of the rod" will produce bodily harm, there is great hope of spiritual good.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 23:13-14: Pro 23:13-14 13 Withhold not correction from the child; For thou will beat him with the rod, and he will not die. 14 Thou beatest him with the rod, And with it deliverest his soul from hell. The exhortation, 13a, presupposes that education by word and deed is a duty devolving on the father and the teacher with regard to the child.