Proverbs 19:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Proverbs 19:25 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 21:11
When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Proverbs 17:10
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Proverbs 9:8-10
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 25)

Note, 1. The punishment of scorners will be a means of good to others. When men are so hardened in wickedness that they will not themselves be wrought upon by the severe methods that are used to reclaim and reform them, yet such methods must be used for the sake of others, that they may hear and fear, Deut. 19:20. If the scorner will not be recovered from his sin, the disease being inveterate, yet…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 25)

25. Such is the benefit of reproof; even the simple profit, much more the wise.