Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.
Psalm 32:9
Become ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, [else] they will not come near to thee.
Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of him who has discernment wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
Judges 8:5-7
And he said to the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
Proverbs 17:10
A rebuke enters deeper into him who has understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs 19:25
Smite a scoffer, and a simple man will learn prudence. And reprove him who has understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.
Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and stripes for the back of fools.
Proverbs 27:22
Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
1 Corinthians 4:21
What do ye want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
2 Corinthians 10:6
and having in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.
2 Corinthians 13:2
I have told you before, and I say in advance, as present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have previously sinned, and to all the others, that if I come to it again, I will not spare,