Proverbs 1:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 5:12 : 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
  • Ps 1:1 : 1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
  • Prov 3:34 : 34 He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
  • Prov 1:4 : 4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.
  • Exod 16:28 : 28 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?
  • Num 14:27 : 27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.
  • Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
  • Prov 6:9 : 9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
  • Prov 7:7 : 7 I saw among the young men one without sense,
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.
  • Prov 9:4-6 : 4 Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says: 5 Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed. 6 Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.
  • Prov 9:16-18 : 16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says: 17 Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. 18 But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
  • Prov 15:12 : 12 The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.
  • Prov 19:29 : 29 Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.
  • Prov 21:11 : 11 When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.
  • Matt 9:13 : 13 But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
  • Matt 11:29-30 : 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; 30 For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
  • Luke 19:42 : 42 Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
  • John 3:20 : 20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,
  • Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who gives ear, say, Come. And let him who is in need come; and let everyone desiring it take of the water of life freely.

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    23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

  • Prov 8:5
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  • Prov 9:16
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    16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Prov 14:6-8
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    6 The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

    7 Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.

    8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

  • Prov 9:4
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    4 Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

  • Prov 19:25
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    25 When blows overtake the man of pride, the simple will get sense; say sharp words to the wise, and knowledge will be made clear to him.

  • Prov 21:11
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    11 When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.

  • Prov 1:4-7
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    4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:

    5 (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

    6 To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

    7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

  • Prov 1:32
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    32 For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

  • Prov 1:21
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    21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

  • Prov 9:6
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    6 Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

  • Prov 14:18
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    18 Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge.

  • Prov 12:1
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    1 A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

  • Prov 15:14
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    14 The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

  • Prov 16:22
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    22 Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2 A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23 A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

  • Prov 1:29
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    29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

  • Prov 15:12
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    12 The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.

  • Prov 9:13
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    13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

  • Prov 5:12
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    12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25 I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

  • Prov 24:9
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    9 The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.

  • Prov 7:7
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    7 I saw among the young men one without sense,

  • Prov 1:25
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    25 You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

  • 1 Cor 1:20
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    20 Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

  • Prov 10:14
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    14 Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3 By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • Prov 19:29
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    29 Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16 How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

  • Prov 13:16
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    16 A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.

  • Prov 26:5
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    5 Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.

  • Prov 17:24
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    24 Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33 Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

  • Prov 15:2
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    2 Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.

  • Prov 14:15
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    15 The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.

  • Prov 3:35
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    35 The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21 Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

  • Eccl 1:18
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    18 Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24 Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

  • Prov 15:5
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    5 A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.