Where in the scriptures does the expression "spare the rod and spoil the child" appear?
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Nowhere in holy writ does the expression "spare the rod and spoil the child" appear. A scriptural verse that might be regarded as similar to it is Prov. 13:24, "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes."
"Spare the rod and spoil the child" is an English proverb borrowed from the Latin and traced to about 1000 A.D.
Source: Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 13th and centennial edition, p. 84.
