Proverbs 19:25

Bishops' Bible (1568)

If thou smytest a scornefull person, the ignoraunt shall take better heede: and if thou reprouest one that hath vnderstanding, he wyll be the wyser.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 21:11 : 11 When the scornefull is punished, the ignoraunt take the better heede: and when the wyse is instructed, he wyll receaue vnderstanding.
  • Deut 13:11 : 11 And all Israel shall heare and feare, and shall do no more any suche wickednesse, as this is among you.
  • Deut 21:21 : 21 And all the men of that citie shall stone hym with stones vnto death: And thou shalt put euyll away from thee, and all Israel shall heare, and feare.
  • Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Reproue not a scorner, lest he owe thee euyll will: but rebuke a wyse man, and he wyll loue thee. 9 Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge. 10 The feare of the Lorde is the beginning of wisdome: and the knowledge of holy thinges, is vnderstanding.
  • Prov 15:5 : 5 A foole dispiseth his fathers correction: but he that taketh heede when he is reproued, shall haue the more vnderstandyng.
  • Prov 17:10 : 10 One reproofe more feareth a wise man, then an hundred stripes doth a foole.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten: Be feruent therfore, & repent.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 21:11
    84%

    11When the scornefull is punished, the ignoraunt take the better heede: and when the wyse is instructed, he wyll receaue vnderstanding.

  • Prov 9:6-9
    4 verses
    81%

    6Forsake foolishnes, and ye shall lyue: and see that ye go in the way of vnderstandyng.

    7Whoso reproueth a scornefull person, getteth him selfe dishonour: and he that rebuketh the vngodly, stayneth hym selfe.

    8Reproue not a scorner, lest he owe thee euyll will: but rebuke a wyse man, and he wyll loue thee.

    9Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge.

  • Prov 17:10
    79%

    10One reproofe more feareth a wise man, then an hundred stripes doth a foole.

  • Prov 14:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    6A scornfull body seketh wisdome, and fyndeth it not: but knowledge is easie vnto hym that wyll vnderstande.

    7Get thee from a foolishe man, when thou perceauest not in hym the lippes of knowledge.

  • Prov 13:1
    78%

    1A wise sonne wil hearken to his fathers warnyng: but he that is scorneful wil not heare when he is reproued.

  • Prov 15:5
    77%

    5A foole dispiseth his fathers correction: but he that taketh heede when he is reproued, shall haue the more vnderstandyng.

  • Prov 19:29
    77%

    29Iudgementes are ordeyned for the scornefull, and stripes for fooles backes.

  • Prov 1:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22O ye children, howe long wyll ye loue childishnesse? howe long wyll the scorners delite in scornyng, and the vnwise hate knowledge?

    23O turne you at my correction: lo I wyll expresse my mynde vnto you, and make you vnderstande my wordes.

  • Prov 15:12
    76%

    12A scornefull body loueth not one that rebuketh hym: neither wyll he come vnto the wyse.

  • Prov 12:1
    76%

    1Who so loueth correction loueth knowledge: but he that hateth to be reproued is a foole.

  • Prov 14:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17An vnpatient man dealeth foolishly: but he that is well aduised, is hated of the foole.

    18The ignoraunt haue foolishnesse in possession: but the wyse are crowned with knowledge.

  • Prov 10:13
    75%

    13In the lippes of him that hath vnderstanding, a man shall finde wysdome: but the rod belongeth to the backe of the foolishe.

  • Prov 22:10
    74%

    10Cast out the scorneful man, and so shal strife go out with hym: yea variaunce and sclaunder shall ceasse.

  • Prov 27:12
    74%

    12A wyse man seing the plague, wyll hide hym selfe: as for fooles they go on styll and suffer harme.

  • Prov 13:18
    74%

    18He that thinketh scorne to be refourmed, commeth to pouertie and shame: but who so regardeth correction, shall come to honour.

  • Prov 10:17
    74%

    17Nurture kepeth the way of lyfe: but he that refuseth to be nurtured, deceaueth hym selfe.

  • Prov 15:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31The eare that hearkeneth to the refourmation of lyfe, shall dwell among the wyse.

    32He that refuseth to be refourmed, dispiseth his owne soule: but he that submitteth him selfe to correction, is wyse.

  • Prov 19:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26He that hurteth his father, or shutteth out his mother, is a shamefull and an vnworthy sonne.

    27My sonne heare no more the doctrine that leadeth thee vnto errours from the wordes of vnderstanding.

  • Prov 24:9
    73%

    9The wicked thought of the foolishe is sinne: and the scornefull is an abhomination vnto men.

  • Prov 1:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4To geue wyt vnto the simple, and that the young men myght haue knowledge and vnderstandyng.

    5The wise man wyll geue eare, and wyll come by more wisdome, and he that is endued with vnderstanding shal attayne vnto wise counsayles.

  • Prov 29:8
    73%

    8Scornefull men bryng a citie into a snare: but wise men turne away wrath.

  • Prov 8:5
    73%

    5Take heede vnto knowledge O ye ignoraunt, be ye wise in heart O ye fooles.

  • Prov 13:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15Good vnderstandyng geueth fauour: but harde is the way of the dispisers.

    16A wise man doth all thynges with discretion: but a foole wyll declare his follie.

  • Prov 29:1
    73%

    1He that is stifnecked and wyll not be refourmed, shall sodaynly be destroyed without any helpe.

  • Prov 26:5
    72%

    5But make the foole an aunswere to his foolishnesse, lest he be wyse in his owne conceipt.

  • Prov 17:5
    72%

    5Who so scorneth the poore, blasphemeth his maker: and he that is glad at another mans hurt, shall not be vnpunished.

  • Prov 15:20
    72%

    20A wyse sonne maketh a glad father: but a foolishe man dispiseth his mother.

  • Prov 29:15
    72%

    15The rodde and correction geueth wisdome: but a childe left to his owne will, bryngeth his mother to shame.

  • Prov 21:24
    72%

    24He that is proude and arrogant; is called a scorner, whiche in his wrath worketh presumptuously.

  • Prov 24:25
    72%

    25But they that rebuke the vngodly in them doth God delight, and a rych blessing shall come vpon them.

  • Prov 15:14
    72%

    14The heart of hym that hath vnderstandyng doth seke knowledge: but the mouth of fooles is fed with foolishnesse.

  • Prov 1:32
    72%

    32For the turnyng away of the vnwise shall slay them, and the prosperitie of fooles shall destroy them.

  • Prov 14:3
    72%

    3In the mouth of the foolishe is the rodde of pryde: but the lippes of the wyse wyll preserue them.

  • Prov 22:3
    72%

    3A wyse man seeth the plague, and hydeth hym selfe: but the foolishe go on still, and are punished.

  • Prov 17:27
    72%

    27A wyse man vseth fewe wordes, and a man of vnderstanding is of a pacient spirite.

  • Prov 22:15
    71%

    15Foolishnes is bounde in the heart of the chylde: and the rodde of correction shall driue it away.

  • Prov 15:10
    71%

    10Correction is greeuous vnto hym that forsaketh the way: and who so hateth correction shall dye.

  • Prov 16:22
    71%

    22Vnderstandyng is a well of lyfe vnto hym that hath it: as for the chastenyng of fooles it is but foolishnesse.

  • Prov 1:7
    71%

    7The feare of the Lorde is the begynnyng of knowledge: but fooles dispise wisdome and instruction.

  • Prov 14:15
    71%

    15An ignorant body beleueth euery worde: but who so hath vnderstanding, loketh well to his goynges.