Proverbs 26:3
"A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back."
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- Proverbs 10:13
"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."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 4:21
"What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 32:9
"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."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 13:2
"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:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 19:29
"Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 27:22
"Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him."
Read in chapter → - Judges 8:5
"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."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 10:6
"And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 17:10
"A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool."
Read in chapter → - 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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