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Proverbs 19:25–26

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25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
26He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
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Proverbs 19:25Cross-references · 7 ranked passages

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    11When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

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    10A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

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    5A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

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    19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

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    8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

    9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

    10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

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    11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

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    21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Proverbs 19:26Cross-references · 13 ranked passages

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    5He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

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    2A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

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    24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

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    17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

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    18¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

    19Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

    20And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

    21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

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    1THE proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

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    22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

    23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

    24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

    25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

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    14Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

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    7Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

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    11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

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    12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

    13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

    14And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

    15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

    16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

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    30But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

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Proverbs 19:25

COMBINED MEANING

smite

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To strike, hit, beat, wound, kill, defeat, destroy, afflict, plague, or bring a forceful blow, judgment, correction, or rebuke upon someone or something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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simple

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Without guile; sincere or harmless; in other contexts, lacking wisdom or understanding.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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beware

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To take heed, be cautious, watch, or guard oneself against a person, act, teaching, danger, or neglect.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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reprove

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To expose, demonstrate, convict, refute, correct, censure, or call to account for fault, error, sin, or false words.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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understanding

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1. The capacity or act of perceiving, comprehending, discerning, judging, interpreting, or applying knowledge. 2. Knowledge, insight, wisdom, or prudent judgment possessed or gained. 3. Skill or ability in a work, art, subject, vision, saying, or interpretation.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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Proverbs 19:26

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father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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mother

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Sense 1: A female parent. Sense 2: Figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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son

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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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shame

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Sense 1: A painful sense of guilt, disgrace, or dishonor. Sense 2: As a verb, to make ashamed or bring disgrace upon.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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reproach

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Sense 1: Shame, disgrace, dishonour, contempt, blame, reviling, or taunt. Sense 2: As a verb, to shame, insult, blame, or speak contemptuously against.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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19:24A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

19:25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

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19:26He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

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19:27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

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