Verse 10

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

Referenced Verses

• Ps 141:5 : 5 May the godly strike me in love and correct me! May my head not refuse choice oil! Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds.
• Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you. 9 Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.
• Prov 13:1 : 1 A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer has never listened to rebuke.
• Prov 15:5 : 5 A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.
• Prov 19:25 : 25 Flog a scorner, and as a result the simpleton will learn prudence; correct a discerning person, and as a result he will understand knowledge.
• Prov 27:22 : 22 If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.
• Prov 29:19 : 19 A servant cannot be corrected by words, for although he understands, there is no answer.
• Rev 3:19 : 19 All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!