Proverbs 22:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ Drive out a scoffer, and strife goes out; quarreling and abuse will cease.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; Yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go out; yes, strife and abuse will cease.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Remove the mocker and conflict disappears; judgment and shame also stop.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Cast out the one who ridicules, and conflict will go out with him, and accusations and insults will cease.

Proverbs 22:10 Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:13

God will judge those outside. “Drive out the wicked person from among you.”

Proverbs 21:24

The proud, haughty person, named Scoffer, acts with arrogant pride.

Psalm 101:5

One who secretly slanders a neighbor I will destroy. A haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not tolerate.

Nehemiah 13:28

And one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; I chased him away from me.

Matthew 18:17

If that person refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church, and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a gentile and a tax collector.

Proverbs 18:6

A fool’s lips bring strife, and a fool’s mouth invites a flogging.

Judges 9:55

When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.