Wisdom is found in the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks heart.

A reproof enters more into a wise man than a thousand stripes into a fool.

Strike a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove one who has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with the grain, his foolishness will not depart from him.

And he said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.

And Gideon said, Therefore, when Jehovah has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will thresh your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers!

Do not be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?

and being ready to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;