Proverbs 17:10
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A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool.
In other translations
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Proverbs 9:8-98 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.8 Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. 9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
- Proverbs 15:5A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
- Psalm 141:5Let 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.Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.
- Proverbs 27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
- Proverbs 19:25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.Strike a mocker, and the simple will beware; rebuke the discerning man, and he will gain knowledge.
- Proverbs 13:1A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.A wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.
- Proverbs 29:19A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.A servant cannot be corrected by words alone; though he understands, he will not respond.
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