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Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline [correction administered with godly wisdom and lovingkindness] will remove it far from him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Heart;   Parents;   Thompson Chain Reference - Childhood, Marks of;   Childishness;   Correction;   Discipline;   Family;   Fathers;   Home;   Marks;   Punishment;   Rod;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Chastisement;   Children;   Foolishness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;   Heart, Character of the Unrenewed;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Chastisement;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Discipline;   Heart;   Proverbs, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bastinado;   Sin;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Club;   Proverbs, Book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Sceptre;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ben Sira, Alphabet of;   Education;   Folly and Fool;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child;The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Foolishnes is bounde in the heart of the chylde: and the rodde of correction shall driue it away.
Darby Translation
Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
New King James Version
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.
Literal Translation
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a boy, the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Easy-to-Read Version
Children do foolish things, but if you punish them, they will learn not to do them.
World English Bible
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.
King James Version (1611)
Foolishnesse is bound in the heart of a child: but the rod of correction shal driue it farre from him.
King James Version
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Foolishnes sticketh in the herte of ye lad, but ye rod of correccion driueth it awaye.
THE MESSAGE
Young people are prone to foolishness and fads; the cure comes through tough-minded discipline.
American Standard Version
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Bible in Basic English
Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.
Update Bible Version
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Webster's Bible Translation
Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
New English Translation
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
Contemporary English Version
All children are foolish, but firm correction will make them change.
Complete Jewish Bible
Doing wrong is firmly tied to the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away from him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Foolishnesse is bounde in the heart of a childe: but the rodde of correction shall driue it away from him.
George Lamsa Translation
Foolishness moves the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Hebrew Names Version
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
New Living Translation
A youngster's heart is filled with foolishness, but physical discipline will drive it far away.
New Life Bible
A foolish way is held in the heart of a child, but the punishing stick will send it far from him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are then far from him.
English Revised Version
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Berean Standard Bible
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
New Revised Standard
Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy, but the rod of discipline drives it far away.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.
Lexham English Bible
Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; the rod of discipline will drive it from him.
English Standard Version
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
New American Standard Bible
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.
New Century Version
Every child is full of foolishness, but punishment can get rid of it.
Good News Translation
Children just naturally do silly, careless things, but a good spanking will teach them how to behave.
Christian Standard Bible®
Foolishness is tangled up in the heart of a youth; the rod of discipline will drive it away from him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Foli is boundun togidere in the herte of a child; and a yerde of chastisyng schal dryue it awey.
Revised Standard Version
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Young's Literal Translation
Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

Contextual Overview

15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline [correction administered with godly wisdom and lovingkindness] will remove it far from him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Foolishness: Job 14:4, Psalms 51:5, John 3:6, Ephesians 2:3

but: Proverbs 13:24, Proverbs 19:18, Proverbs 23:13, Proverbs 23:14, Proverbs 29:15, Proverbs 29:17, Hebrews 12:10, Hebrews 12:11

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:18 - when they 1 Kings 1:6 - had not 2 Kings 2:23 - little children Psalms 58:3 - estranged Proverbs 20:11 - General Proverbs 20:30 - stripes Ecclesiastes 11:10 - for Matthew 15:19 - out Mark 7:22 - foolishness Ephesians 6:4 - but Hebrews 12:7 - endure Revelation 3:19 - many

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child,.... That is, sin, the greatest of all folly; this is naturally in the heart of man; it is in the heart of a child, it is in him from his infancy; it is bound in his heart, it is rooted and riveted in him, being conceived in sin, and shapen in iniquity; it is what cleaves close to him, and he has a strong affection for and desire after: the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, Genesis 8:21; so that he is not easily brought off of sin, or becomes wise;

[but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him; the rod used by parents, for the correction of sin and folly, is a means of making children wise, and of restraining the folly that is bound up in them; and of reclaiming them from those sinful ways, which the folly of their hearts leads them to, and so in some measure of driving it far from them.


 
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