Proverbs 20:30 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁰ Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: So do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ Blows that wound cleanse away evil, and strokes [for correction] reach to the innermost parts.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes reach the innermost parts.

Common English Bible

³⁰ Blows and bruises remove evil; beatings cleanse the inner parts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ The bruise of a wound, as well as scourges, shall wipe away evils in the more secret places of the inner self.

Proverbs 20:30 Cross References

Hebrews 12:10

For they disciplined us for a short time at their pleasure, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 19:25

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

Isaiah 53:5

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Psalm 89:32

then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges;

Proverbs 27:6

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.