Proverbs 20:30 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁰ Stripes that wound cleanse away evil: And strokes reach the innermost parts of the belly.

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly.

Proverbs 20:30 Cross References

Psalm 89:32

Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.

Proverbs 19:25

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

Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Proverbs 27:6

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

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

Isaiah 53:5

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Hebrews 12:10

For they verily for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

1 Peter 2:24

who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.