Proverbs 19:25 - American Standard Version 2015

²⁵ Smite a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence;\par\tab And reprove one that hath understanding, {\i and} he will understand knowledge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: And reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will increase in knowledge.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Smite a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; And reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Strike someone who scoffs, and a naive person will become clever; correct someone with understanding, and they will gain knowledge.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ When the pestilent are scourged, the foolish will become wiser. But if you chastise the wise, he will understand discipline.

Proverbs 19:25 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 141:5

Let the righteous smite me, {\i it shall be} a kindness;\par\tab And let him reprove me, {\i it shall be as} oil upon the head;\par\tab Let not my head refuse it:\par\tab For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue.

Proverbs 1:5

That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;\par\tab And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's correction;\par\tab But he that regardeth reproof getteth prudence.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding\par\tab Than a hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 21:11

When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise;\par\tab And when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

Proverbs 9:7

He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling;\par\tab And he that reproveth a wicked man {\i getteth} himself a blot.

Deuteronomy 13:11

And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do not more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.

Deuteronomy 21:21

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

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.