◄ Proverbs 20:30 ►
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Good News Translation
Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways.

New Revised Standard Version
Blows that wound cleanse away evil; beatings make clean the innermost parts.

Contemporary English Version
A severe beating can knock all of the evil out of you!

New American Bible
Evil is cleansed away by bloody lashes, and a scourging to the inmost being.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly.

Proverbs 19:25 The wicked man being scourged, the fool shall be wiser: but if thou rebuke a wise man, he will understand discipline.

Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Isaiah 27:9 Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.

Hebrews 12:10 And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.

Context
Wine is a Mocker
…29The joy of young men is their strength: and the dignity of old men, their grey hairs. 30The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly.
Cross References
1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

Psalm 89:32
I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with stripes.

Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Proverbs 27:6
Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.

Isaiah 53:5
But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.

Proverbs 20:29
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