Proverbs 20:30 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁰ The blows that wound cleanse away evil, And strokes the inner parts of the heart.

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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

Psalm 89:32

“Then I shall visit their transgression with the rod, And their crookedness with flogging.

Proverbs 19:25

Beat a scoffer, and the simple is made wise; And reprove one who has understanding, And he discerns knowledge.

Proverbs 22:15

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

Proverbs 27:6

The wounds of a friend are true, But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore by this the crookedness of Yaʽ

Isaiah 53:5

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our crookednesses. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Hebrews 12:10

For they indeed disciplined us for a few days as seemed best to them, but He does it for our profit, so that we might share His apartness.

1 Peter 2:24

who Himself bore our sins in His body on the timber, so that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed.