Pro 17:10
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. {entereth...: or, aweth more a wise man, than to strike a fool an hundred times}
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As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Let the righteous smite me; {it shall be} a kindness: and let him reprove me; {it shall be} an excellent oil, {which} shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also {shall be} in their calamities. {me; it shall be a...: or, me kindly, and reprove me; let not their precious oil break, etc}
A wise son {heareth} his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, {and} he will understand knowledge. {will beware: Heb. will be cunning}
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, {yet} will not his foolishness depart from him.
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, {and} he will understand knowledge. {will beware: Heb. will be cunning}
And blessed {be} thy advice, and blessed {be} thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to {shed} blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod {is} for the back of him that is void of understanding. {of understanding: Heb. of heart}
{It is} better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous {man}, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.