Verse 29

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

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  • Prov 26:3 : 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool’s back.
  • Prov 10:13 : 13 In the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who is void of understanding.
  • Prov 9:12 : 12 If you are wise, you will be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.
  • Prov 17:10 : 10 A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.
  • Prov 18:6 : 6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for blows.
  • Prov 3:34 : 34 Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace to the lowly.
  • Prov 7:22 : 22 He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
  • Isa 28:22 : 22 Now therefore do not be mockers, lest your bonds be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
  • Isa 29:20 : 20 For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
  • Acts 13:40-41 : 40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; 41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I am working a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, though a man declare it to you.
  • Heb 12:6 : 6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."
  • 2 Pet 3:3-7 : 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens existed of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.