Proverbs 26:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 32:9 : 9 Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
  • Prov 10:13 : 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.
  • Prov 17:10 : 10 ¶ A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
  • Prov 19:25 : 25 ¶ Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.
  • Prov 19:29 : 29 ¶ Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
  • 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.
  • 1 Cor 4:21 : 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?
  • 2 Cor 10:6 : 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
  • 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
  • Judg 8:5-7 : 5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they [be] faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian. 6 And the princes of Succoth said, [Are] the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? 7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

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    4¶ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

    6¶ He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, [and] drinketh damage.

    7The legs of the lame are not equal: so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools.

    8As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so [is] he that giveth honour to a fool.

    9[As] a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools.

    10¶ The great [God] that formed all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

    11¶ As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly.

  • Prov 19:29
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    29¶ Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

  • Prov 22:15
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    15¶ Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

  • Prov 14:3
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    3¶ In the mouth of the foolish [is] a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

  • Prov 10:13
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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.

  • Ps 32:9
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    9Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

  • Jas 3:3
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    3Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

  • 2 Pet 2:16
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    16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

  • Prov 18:6
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    6¶ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

  • Prov 17:10
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    10¶ A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

  • Prov 27:22-23
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    22¶ Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.

    23¶ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.

  • Prov 15:5
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    5¶ A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

  • Prov 19:10
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  • Prov 23:13-14
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    25¶ A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

  • Prov 29:11
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    20¶ Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.

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