Proverbs 19:25 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁵ Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: And reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will increase in knowledge.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Smite a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; And reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Strike someone who scoffs, and a naive person will become clever; correct someone with understanding, and they will gain knowledge.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ When the pestilent are scourged, the foolish will become wiser. But if you chastise the wise, he will understand discipline.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ The wicked man being; scourged, the fool shall be wiser: but if thou rebuke a wise man he will understand discipline.

Proverbs 19:25 Cross References

Psalm 141:5

Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

Proverbs 1:5

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 17:10

A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 21:11

When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

Proverbs 9:7

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Deuteronomy 13:11

And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

Deuteronomy 21:21

And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.