Proverbs 19:25

A Conservative Version

Smite a scoffer, and a simple man will learn prudence. And reprove him who has understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:11

When a scoffer is punished, a simple man is made wise, and when a wise man is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke enters deeper into him who has understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Deuteronomy 21:21

And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Deuteronomy 13:11

And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall no more do any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.

Psalm 141:5

Let a righteous man smite me, [as] a kindness. And let him reprove me, [as] oil upon the head. Let not my head refuse it. For even in their wickedness my prayer shall continue.

Proverbs 9:7

He who corrects a scoffer gets himself reviling. And he who reproves a wicked man [gets] himself a bruise.

Proverbs 1:5

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels,