Proverbs 19:25
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
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- Proverbs 21:11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
- Proverbs 17:10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
- Proverbs 15:5 A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.