For who shall be pure from uncleanness? Not even one;

For behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

He that spares the rod hates his son, but he that loves carefully chastens him.

Chasten your son, for so he shall be hopeful; and be not exalted in your soul to haughtiness.

Refrain not from chastening a child, for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.

For you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from death.

Stripes and reproofs give wisdom, but an erring child disgraces his parents.

Chasten your son, and he shall give you rest, and he shall give honor to your soul.

For they indeed for a few days were disciplining us, as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, in order to partake of His holiness.

Now no discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, later it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those having been trained by it.