Verse 25

If thou smytest a scornefull person, the ignoraunt shall take better heede: and if thou reprouest one that hath vnderstanding, he wyll be the wyser.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 21:11 : 11 When the scornefull is punished, the ignoraunt take the better heede: and when the wyse is instructed, he wyll receaue vnderstanding.
• Deut 13:11 : 11 And all Israel shall heare and feare, and shall do no more any suche wickednesse, as this is among you.
• Deut 21:21 : 21 And all the men of that citie shall stone hym with stones vnto death: And thou shalt put euyll away from thee, and all Israel shall heare, and feare.
• Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Reproue not a scorner, lest he owe thee euyll will: but rebuke a wyse man, and he wyll loue thee. 9 Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge. 10 The feare of the Lorde is the beginning of wisdome: and the knowledge of holy thinges, is vnderstanding.
• Prov 15:5 : 5 A foole dispiseth his fathers correction: but he that taketh heede when he is reproued, shall haue the more vnderstandyng.
• Prov 17:10 : 10 One reproofe more feareth a wise man, then an hundred stripes doth a foole.
• Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten: Be feruent therfore, & repent.