Proverbs 17:9-11

Easy-to-Read Version

⁹Forgive someone, and you will strengthen your friendship. Keep reminding them, and you will destroy it.

¹⁰Smart people learn more from a single correction than fools learn from a hundred beatings.

¹¹Those who are evil only want to cause trouble. In the end, punishment without mercy will be sent to them.

Proverbs 17:9-11

New International Version

⁹Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,^(A)
but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.^(B)

¹⁰A rebuke impresses a discerning person
more than a hundred lashes a fool.

¹¹Evildoers foster rebellion against God;
the messenger of death will be sent against them.

⁹He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

¹⁰A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

¹¹An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

New International Version (NIV)