Proverbs 19:18-20

Good News Translation

¹⁸Discipline your children while they are young enough to learn. If you don't, you are helping them destroy themselves.^[a]

¹⁹If someone has a hot temper, let him take the consequences. If you get him out of trouble once, you will have to do it again.^[b]

²⁰If you listen to advice and are willing to learn, one day you will be wise.

Proverbs 19:18 If you … themselves; or But don't punish them so hard that you kill them.
Proverbs 19:19 get him out … again; or try to get him out of trouble, you only make things worse.

Proverbs 19:18-20

New International Version

¹⁸Discipline your children, for in that there is hope;
do not be a willing party to their death.^(A)

¹⁹A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty;
rescue them, and you will have to do it again.

²⁰Listen to advice and accept discipline,^(B)
and at the end you will be counted among the wise.^(C)

Good News Translation (GNT)

New International Version (NIV)