Proverbs 1:29

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Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,

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  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp, the teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
  • Isa 30:9-9 : 9 These are a rebellious people, deceitful children, unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction. 10 They say to the seers, 'See no more visions!' and to the prophets, 'Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.' 11 'Leave the way, turn aside from the path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!' 12 Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: 'Because you have rejected this message and relied on oppression and deceit, leaning on them for support—'
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 'But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.'
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
  • Acts 7:51-54 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did. 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him— 53 you who received the law through angels but have not obeyed it. 54 When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 He chose to suffer affliction with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 You will say, 'How I hated discipline, and my heart despised correction!'
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Yet they say to God, 'Depart from us! We have no desire to know your ways.' 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we profit if we entreat him?
  • Ps 50:16-17 : 16 But to the wicked God says: 'What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? 17 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

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    30They would have none of my counsel and despised all my correction.

    31Therefore they will eat the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own schemes.

  • Prov 1:28
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    28Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they will not find me.

  • Prov 1:7
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    7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they turned away from following Him and did not regard any of His ways,

  • Job 21:14
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    14Yet they say to God, 'Depart from us! We have no desire to know your ways.'

  • Prov 8:13
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    13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior, and perverse speech.

  • Prov 1:22-25
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    22How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

    23If you turn at my correction, behold, I will pour out my Spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.

    24Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hand, but no one paid attention,

    25And you ignored all my advice and would have none of my correction,

  • Prov 5:12-13
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    12You will say, 'How I hated discipline, and my heart despised correction!'

    13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

  • Isa 66:4
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    4So I also will choose harsh punishments for them and bring on them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they did not listen. Instead, they did what was evil in My eyes and chose what I did not delight in.

  • Ps 50:17
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    17For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

  • Jer 9:13
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    13Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

  • Rom 3:17-18
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    17And the way of peace they have not known.

    18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

  • Isa 1:29
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    29You will be ashamed because of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush because of the gardens you have chosen.

  • Prov 2:5
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    5then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22For my people are foolish; they do not know me. They are senseless children and have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

  • Prov 9:10
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    10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

  • Prov 12:1
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    1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but one who hates correction is senseless.

  • Zeph 1:6
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    6And I will remove those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

  • Hos 4:6
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    6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

  • Ps 36:1
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    1To the choirmaster, a servant of the Lord, a psalm of David.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

  • Rom 1:28
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    28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

  • Ps 107:11
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    11For they had rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

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    4Then I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.'

  • Rom 1:21-22
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    21For although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

    22Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

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    19The LORD saw this and despised them out of His anger at His sons and daughters.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3A man’s foolishness twists his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

  • Jer 32:33
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    33They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them persistently, they refused to listen or accept correction.

  • Zeph 3:7
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    7I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept discipline.’ Then her dwelling would not be destroyed, despite all that I have appointed against her. But they arose early and corrupted all their deeds.

  • Prov 8:10
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    10Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

  • Job 37:24
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    24Therefore, people fear Him; He does not regard any who are wise in their own hearts.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Do all the evildoers not understand? They devour my people as if they were eating bread, but they do not call upon the LORD.

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    12But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

  • Hos 10:3
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    3Now they will say, 'We have no king, for we did not fear the LORD. And as for the king, what could he do for us?

  • Ps 28:5
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    5Because they do not consider the works of the LORD or the deeds of his hands, he will tear them down and never rebuild them.

  • Job 17:4
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    4For you have closed their hearts to understanding; therefore, you will not exalt them.

  • Amos 5:10
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    10They hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise the one who speaks with honesty.

  • Isa 29:13
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    13The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'

  • Prov 15:32
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    32Those who ignore discipline despise themselves, but those who heed correction gain understanding.

  • Job 24:13
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    13They are among those who rebel against the light; they do not recognize its ways nor stay on its paths.

  • Job 28:28
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    28And He said to mankind, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'

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    5Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.