It’s a simple concept: if you love your children, you will discipline them. If you love yourself more than your children, you won’t discipline them. This proverb uses the word hate. Most people today would admit that they don’t hate their children. But the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s selfishness. Hate is only a symptom of selfishness. So to understand this proverb a little better think of parents who fail to discipline their children as loving themselves more than they love their children. Their selfishness overrides their desire to do the right thing and discipline their children. Selfishness is the root of all sin.
24 Those who spare the rod of discipline hate their children.Those who love their children care enough to discipline them.
Proverbs 13:24
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