Proverbs 20:30

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Hebrews 12:10

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in order 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 away.

Proverbs 19:25

Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove the intelligent, and they will gain knowledge.

Isaiah 53:5

But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises 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 sacred poles or incense altars will remain standing.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, having died to sins, we might live for 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

Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts, but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.