Proverbs 26:3
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Psalm 32:9
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9 (A)Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with (B)bit and bridle,
or it will not stay near you.
Proverbs 10:13
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13 On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found,
but (A)a rod is for the back of him who (B)lacks sense.
1 Corinthians 4:21
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21 What do you wish? (A)Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?
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2 Corinthians 13:2
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2 (A)I warned (B)those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that (C)if I come again I will not spare them—
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2 Corinthians 10:6
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6 (A)being ready to punish every disobedience, (B)when your obedience is complete.
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Proverbs 27:22
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22 (A)Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
along with crushed grain,
yet his folly will not depart from him.
Proverbs 19:29
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Proverbs 19:25
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25 (A)Strike (B)a scoffer, and the simple will (C)learn prudence;
(D)reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
Proverbs 17:10
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10 A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding
than a hundred blows into a fool.
Judges 8:5-7
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5 So he said to the men of (A)Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.” 6 And the officials of Succoth said, (B)“Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, (C)that we should give bread to your army?” 7 So Gideon said, “Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, (D)I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
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