Proverbs 1:29

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

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  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
  • Isa 30:9-9 : 9 That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 ‹But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.›
  • John 3:20 : 20 ‹For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.›
  • Acts 7:51-54 : 51 ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it]. 54 ¶ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with [their] teeth.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
  • Ps 50:16-17 : 16 ¶ But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

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    30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

    31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

  • Prov 1:28
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    28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

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    7 ¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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    27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

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    14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

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    13 The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

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    22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

    23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

    24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

    25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

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    12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

    13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

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    17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

  • Jer 9:13
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    13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

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

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    29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

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    5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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    28 For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.

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    10 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding.

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    1 ¶ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.

  • Zeph 1:6
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    6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.

  • Hos 4:6
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    6 ¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

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    1 ¶ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes.

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    9 The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

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    11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

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    4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.

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    21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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    3 ¶ The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

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    10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

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    24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any [that are] wise of heart.

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    4 ¶ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

  • Job 36:12
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    12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

  • Hos 10:3
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    13 ¶ They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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    28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.

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    5 ¶ Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all [things].