Proverbs 20:30

WEB

³⁰Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

KJV

³⁰The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

BSB

³⁰Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.

FBV

³⁰Wounds and blows clean away what's evil; beatings clean what's deep down inside.

Extra References

Hebrews 12:10

¹⁰For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Proverbs 22:15

¹⁵Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 19:25

²⁵Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

⁹Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

Isaiah 53:5

⁵But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.