Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Or, a reproof aweth more a wise man, than to strike a fool an hundred times
Bible References
Or, a reproof aweth more a wise man, than to strike a fool an hundred times
Proverbs 9:8
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
Proverbs 13:1
A wise son heareth his father's instruction; but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despiseth his father's instruction; but he that regardeth reproof becometh prudent.
Proverbs 19:25
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove the intelligent, and he will understand knowledge.
Proverbs 27:22
If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
Proverbs 29:19
A servant is not corrected by words: he understandeth indeed, but he will not answer.
Psalm 141:5
Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is for them in their calamities.
Revelation 3:19
I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous therefore and repent.