Proverbs 19:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he 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 becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who heeds admonition is prudent.

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent.

Deuteronomy 21:21

Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Deuteronomy 13:11

And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

Psalm 141:5

Let a good man strike or rebuke me in kindness, but let the oil of the wicked never anoint my head; for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.

Proverbs 9:7

He who corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.

Proverbs 1:5

the wise man also may hear and increase in learning, and the man of understanding acquire skill,