Proverbs 26:3

American King James Version (1999)

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

Cross References

Psalm 32:9

Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to you.

Proverbs 10:13

In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Proverbs 17:10

A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 19:25

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Proverbs 27:22

Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

1 Corinthians 4:21

What will you? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

2 Corinthians 10:6

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: