Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle a for the ass, and a rod for the back of dullards.
Psalm 32:9
Do not ye become like a horse, like a mule, without discernment, - With the bit and bridle of his mouth, hast thou to restrain him, - He will not come near unto thee.
Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of the intelligent, is found wisdom, but, a rod, is for the back of him that lacketh sense.
Judges 8:5-7
So he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread to the people that are following me; for, faint, they are, and, I, am in pursuit of Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
Proverbs 17:10
A reproof sinketh more deeply into an intelligent man than a hundred stripes, into a dullard!
Proverbs 19:25
The scoffer, thou shalt smite, and, the simple, will beware, but correct a man of intelligence - he will understand teaching.
Proverbs 19:29
Prepared for scoffers, are punishments, and stripes, for the back of dullards.
Proverbs 27:22
Though thou pound a fool in a mortar, amidst grain, with a pestle, his folly, will not depart from him.
1 Corinthians 4:21
What will ye? that, with a rod, I should come unto you? or, with love, and a spirit of meekness?
2 Corinthians 10:6
And when we hold ourselves, in readiness, to avenge all disobedience, as soon as your obedience shall be fulfilled!
2 Corinthians 13:2
I have said beforehand, and do say beforehand, - as present the second time, although now absent, unto them who before sinned, and unto all the rest, - that, if I come again, I will not spare.