3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back.
Proverbs 26:3 Cross References - KJ2000
Judges 8:5-7
5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread unto your army?
7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
Psalms 32:9
9 Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.
Proverbs 10:13
13 In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Proverbs 17:10
10 A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs 19:25
25 Smite a scoffer, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Proverbs 19:29
29 Judgments are prepared for scoffers and stripes for the back of fools.
Proverbs 27:22
22 Though you should crush a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
1 Corinthians 4:21
21 What do you wish? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
2 Corinthians 10:6
6 And having a readiness to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
2 Corinthians 13:2
2 I told you before, and tell you again, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who earlier have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare: