15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Kgs 2:24 — Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
• 1Pet 1:6 — Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
• 2Sam 7:14 — I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
• Deut 8:5 — Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
• Eph 6:4 — And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
• Heb 12:5 — And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
• Heb 12:6 — For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
• Job 34:31 — Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
• Prov 13:24 — He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
• Prov 19:18 — Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
• Prov 19:18 — Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
• Prov 23:13 — Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
• Prov 29:15 — The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
• Prov 29:17 — Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.