Proverbs 19:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove the intelligent, and they will gain 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.

Proverbs 19:25 Cross References

Proverbs 21:11

When a scoffer is punished, the simple become wiser; when the wise are instructed, they increase in knowledge.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke strikes deeper into a discerning person than a hundred blows into a fool.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises a parent’s instruction, but the one who heeds admonition is prudent.

Revelation 3:19

I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.

Deuteronomy 21:21

Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

Deuteronomy 13:11

Then all Israel shall hear and be afraid and never again do any such wickedness.

Psalm 141:5

Let the righteous strike me; let the faithful correct me. Never let the oil of the wicked anoint my head, for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.

Proverbs 9:7

Whoever corrects a scoffer wins abuse; whoever rebukes the wicked gets hurt.

Proverbs 1:5

let the wise, too, hear and gain in learning and the discerning acquire skill,