Proverbs 14:6

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A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge is easy for a discerning person.

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  • Prov 8:9 : 9 They are all plain to those who understand, and right to those who find knowledge.
  • Prov 17:24 : 24 Wisdom is before the face of the discerning, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
  • Matt 11:25-27 : 25 At that time Jesus said, 'I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.' 26 Yes, Father, for this was Your good pleasure. 27 All things have been committed to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
  • Matt 13:11-12 : 11 Jesus replied, "The mysteries of the kingdom of heaven have been given to you to know, but not to them. 12 For whoever has, more will be given to them, and they will have abundance. But whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken away from them.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without rebuke, and it will be given to him.
  • 2 Pet 3:3-5 : 3 First of all, you should understand that in the last days, mockers will come, following their own evil desires, 4 and they will say, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, everything continues just as it has from the beginning of creation.' 5 For they deliberately ignore this fact: that the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God.
  • Ps 119:18 : 18 Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law.
  • Ps 119:98-99 : 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the elders, because I keep Your precepts.
  • Rom 1:21-28 : 21 For 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. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools. 23 And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is forever praised. Amen. 26 For this reason, God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature. 27 In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 And 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.
  • Rom 9:31-32 : 31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, did not attain it. 32 Why not? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stone of stumbling,
  • 1 Cor 3:18-19 : 18 Let no one deceive themselves. If anyone among you thinks they are wise in this age, let them become foolish so that they may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written, 'He catches the wise in their craftiness.'
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 If anyone thinks they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know.
  • Prov 18:2 : 2 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in revealing his own thoughts.
  • Prov 26:12 : 12 Do you see a person who is wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 The 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?
  • Matt 6:22-23 : 22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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  • Prov 19:25
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    11When a scoffer is punished, the simple become wise; when a wise person is instructed, they increase in knowledge.

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

  • Prov 15:14
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    14The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

  • Prov 14:33
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  • Prov 9:6-8
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  • Prov 13:15-16
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    13Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of those who lack understanding.

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  • Prov 29:8-9
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  • Prov 21:24
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  • Prov 12:15
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