Proverbs 1:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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  • Prov 5:12 : 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
  • Ps 1:1 : 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;
  • Prov 3:34 : 34 Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace to the lowly.
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
  • Prov 1:4 : 4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Exod 16:28 : 28 And the LORD said to Moses, How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
  • Num 14:27 : 27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmurs against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
  • Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?
  • Prov 6:9 : 9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
  • Prov 7:7 : 7 And saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding,
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 O simple ones, understand wisdom; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.
  • Prov 9:4-6 : 4 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
  • Prov 9:16-18 : 16 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 18 But he does not know that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scorner seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
  • Prov 15:12 : 12 A scorner does not love one who reproves him, nor will he go to the wise.
  • Prov 19:29 : 29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
  • Prov 21:11 : 11 When the scorner is punished, the simple becomes wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
  • Matt 9:13 : 13 But go and learn what this means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice: for I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
  • Matt 11:29-30 : 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him here to me.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
  • Luke 19:42 : 42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
  • John 3:20 : 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
  • Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who hears say, Come. And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

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  • Prov 9:16
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    6A scorner seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

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  • Prov 19:25
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  • Prov 21:11
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  • Prov 1:4-7
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    5A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel;

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  • Prov 1:21
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  • Ps 94:8
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    14The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

  • Prov 16:22
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    22Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may express itself.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

  • Prov 1:29
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    29Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;

  • Prov 15:12
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  • Prov 9:13
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    13A foolish woman is loud: she is simple, and knows nothing.

  • Prov 5:12
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    12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I applied my heart to know, to search, and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even foolishness and madness.

  • Prov 24:9
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    9The thought of foolishness is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to men.

  • Prov 7:7
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    7And saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding,

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    14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

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    16Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no desire for it?

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    16Every prudent man deals with knowledge, but a fool lays open his folly.

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    33Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known.

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  • Prov 3:35
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    35The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the legacy of fools.

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    21Folly is joy to him who is destitute of wisdom, but a man of understanding walks uprightly.

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    18For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

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    24The crown of the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is folly.

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    5A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who regards reproof is prudent.