Proverbs 17:10

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 141:5 : 5 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.
  • Prov 9:8-9 : 8 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.
  • Prov 13:1 : 1 ¶ A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
  • Prov 15:5 : 5 ¶ A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
  • Prov 19:25 : 25 ¶ Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.
  • Prov 27:22 : 22 ¶ Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
  • Prov 29:19 : 19 ¶ A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 ‹As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.›

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

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    13¶ 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.

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    5¶ A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

  • Prov 9:7-9
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    7He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked [man getteth] himself a blot.

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  • Prov 15:31-32
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    6¶ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

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    10¶ Correction [is] grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: [and] he that hateth reproof shall die.

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