Proverbs 20:30 Blows and wounds scrub away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Blows and wounds scrub away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.

English Standard Version
Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.

New American Standard Bible
Stripes that wound scour away evil, And strokes reach the innermost parts.

King James Bible
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Lashes and wounds purge away evil, and beatings cleanse the innermost parts.

International Standard Version
Blows that wound clean away evil; such beatings cleanse the innermost being.

American Standard Version
Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes reach the innermost parts.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Wounding stripes purge away evil, and strokes purge the inner parts of the belly.

Young's Literal Translation
The bandages of a wound thou removest with the evil, Also the plagues of the inner parts of the heart!

Cross References

1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live to righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.

Psalm 89:32
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Proverbs 27:6
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Isaiah 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

20:30. Severe rebukes sometimes do a great deal of good. But such is the corruption of nature, that men are loth to be rebuked for their sins. If God uses severe afflictions, to purify our hearts and fit us for his service, we have cause to be very thankful.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

30. blueness—literally, "joining," the process of uniting the edges of a wound throws off purulent matter.

stripes … belly—So punishment provides healing of soul (Pr 18:8), by deterring from evil courses.