Proverbs 19:29

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Penalties have been prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 26:3 : 3 A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!
  • Prov 10:13 : 13 Wisdom is found in the words of the discerning person, but the one who lacks sense will be disciplined.
  • Prov 9:12 : 12 If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you have mocked, you alone must bear it.
  • Prov 17:10 : 10 A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.
  • Prov 18:6 : 6 The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
  • Prov 3:34 : 34 With arrogant scoffers he is scornful, yet he shows favor to the humble.
  • Prov 7:22 : 22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare
  • Isa 28:22 : 22 So now, do not mock, or your chains will become heavier! For I have heard a message about decreed destruction, from the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, against the entire land.
  • Isa 29:20 : 20 For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated–
  • Acts 13:40-41 : 40 Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you: 41 ‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”
  • Heb 12:6 : 6 “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”
  • 2 Pet 3:3-7 : 3 Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges 4 and saying,“Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water. 6 Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water. 7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 26:3-5
    3 verses
    79%

    3A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.

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

  • Prov 19:25
    77%

    25Flog a scorner, and as a result the simpleton will learn prudence; correct a discerning person, and as a result he will understand knowledge.

  • Prov 24:9
    76%

    9A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.

  • Prov 19:28
    76%

    28A crooked witness scorns justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

  • Prov 17:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.

    11An evil person seeks only rebellion, and so a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

  • Prov 18:6
    75%

    6The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.

  • Job 19:29
    75%

    29Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.”

  • Prov 21:11
    74%

    11When a scorner is punished, the naive becomes wise; when a wise person is instructed, he gains knowledge.

  • Prov 9:7
    74%

    7Whoever corrects a mocker is asking for insult; whoever reproves a wicked person receives abuse.

  • Prov 22:15
    73%

    15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

  • Prov 14:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

    9Fools mock at reparation, but among the upright there is favor.

  • Prov 10:13
    73%

    13Wisdom is found in the words of the discerning person, but the one who lacks sense will be disciplined.

  • Prov 29:1
    72%

    1The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

  • Prov 29:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Scornful people inflame a city, but those who are wise turn away wrath.

    9When a wise person goes to court with a foolish person, there is no peace whether he is angry or laughs.

  • Ps 107:17
    72%

    17They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins.

  • Prov 26:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Like a thorn has gone up into the hand of a drunkard, so a proverb has gone up into the mouth of a fool.

    10Like an archer who wounds at random, so is the one who hires a fool or hires any passerby.

  • Prov 14:3
    72%

    3In the speech of a fool is a rod for his back, but the words of the wise protect them.

  • Deut 25:2
    72%

    2Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.

  • Prov 14:6
    72%

    6The scorner sought wisdom–there was none, but understanding was easy for a discerning person.

  • Prov 15:5
    72%

    5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

  • Isa 29:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated–

    21those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

  • Prov 21:24
    71%

    24A proud and arrogant person, whose name is“Scoffer,” acts with overbearing pride.

  • Prov 19:3
    71%

    3A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

  • Prov 15:12
    71%

    12The scorner will not love one who corrects him; he will not go to the wise.

  • Prov 1:22
    71%

    22“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?

  • Prov 19:10
    71%

    10Luxury is not appropriate for a fool; how much less for a servant to rule over princes!

  • Prov 17:5
    71%

    5The one who mocks the poor has insulted his Creator; whoever rejoices over disaster will not go unpunished.

  • Prov 13:1
    70%

    1A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer has never listened to rebuke.

  • Job 22:19
    70%

    19The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,

  • Job 36:17
    70%

    17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Prov 18:3
    70%

    3When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.

  • Prov 12:16
    70%

    16A fool’s annoyance is known at once, but the prudent conceals dishonor.

  • Prov 17:25
    70%

    25A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

  • Prov 3:35
    70%

    35The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.

  • Prov 14:24
    70%

    24The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools is folly.

  • Prov 14:33
    70%

    33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; it is not known in the inner parts of fools.

  • Prov 13:18
    70%

    18The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.

  • Prov 19:19
    70%

    19A person with great anger bears the penalty, but if you deliver him from it once, you will have to do it again.

  • Prov 23:9
    70%

    9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • Prov 29:11
    69%

    11A fool lets fly with all his temper, but a wise person keeps it back.

  • 2 Cor 11:19
    69%

    19For since you are so wise, you put up with fools gladly.

  • Prov 22:10
    69%

    10Drive out the scorner and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease.

  • Exod 21:25
    69%

    25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.