Proverbs 19:25-27

Good News Translation

²⁵Arrogance should be punished, so that people who don't know any better can learn a lesson. If you are wise, you will learn when you are corrected.

²⁶Only a shameful, disgraceful person would mistreat his father or turn his mother away from his home.

²⁷My child, when you stop learning, you will soon neglect what you already know.

Proverbs 19:25-27

New International Version

²⁵Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence;
rebuke the discerning,^(A) and they will gain knowledge.^(B)

²⁶Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother^(C)
is a child who brings shame and disgrace.

²⁷Stop listening to instruction, my son,^(D)
and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Good News Translation (GNT)

New International Version (NIV)