Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



The scars of past wounds are medicine for evil, and living reproof reaches the most secret places in the inward parts.



the tribunal commanded him to be brought into the fortress and bade that he should be examined by scourging that he might know why they cried out so against him.

Then straightway those who should have tormented him departed from him, and the tribunal was also afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman and because he had bound him.

And when a man lies carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband and has not been completely ransomed nor been given her freedom, both shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death because she is not free.



Then the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

And it shall be if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten in his presence, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him and not exceed lest if he should exceed and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should be despised before thee.



And ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him:

Let the righteous smite me in mercy, and let him reprove me: and let not a flattering evil prince anoint my head, for my prayer shall ever be against his evil.




Reproof is of more benefit to a wise man than a hundred stripes to a fool.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.


Reproof is of more benefit to a wise man than a hundred stripes to a fool.


Reproof is of more benefit to a wise man than a hundred stripes to a fool.