Bible verse
Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.
Proverbs 20:30 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 20.
26 A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
28 Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.
29 The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.
30 Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.
KJV
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.
ASV
Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes reach the innermost parts.
ERV
Stripes that wound cleanse away evil: and strokes reach the innermost parts of the belly.
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