Proverbs 5:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 12:1 : 1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is foolish.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 1:25 : 25 But you have disregarded all my counsel, and would have none of my rebuke;
  • Prov 15:5 : 5 A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who regards reproof is prudent.
  • Jer 44:4 : 4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.
  • Zech 1:4-6 : 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.
  • Zech 7:11-14 : 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it has come to pass, that just as He called and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts: 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • Prov 1:29-30 : 29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD; 30 They would have none of my counsel and despised all my rebuke.
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
  • Gen 19:9 : 9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one came here to stay, and he will act as a judge: now we will deal worse with you than with them. And they pressed hard against Lot, and came near to break the door.
  • Exod 2:13-14 : 13 And when he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, Why are you hitting your fellow? 14 And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses was afraid and said, Surely this thing is known.
  • 2 Chr 24:20-22 : 20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has also forsaken you. 21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. 22 So Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
  • 2 Chr 25:16 : 16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, Have you been made of the king's counsel? Stop; why should you be struck down? Then the prophet stopped, but said, I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.
  • 2 Chr 33:10-11 : 10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen. 11 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
  • Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.
  • Prov 13:18 : 18 Poverty and shame shall be to him who refuses instruction, but he who regards reproof shall be honored.

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    23 Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make my words known to you.

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

    25 But you have disregarded all my counsel, and would have none of my rebuke;

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    31 The ear that hears the reproof of life abides among the wise.

    32 He who refuses instruction despises his own soul, but he who hears reproof gains understanding.

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    13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

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    18 Poverty and shame shall be to him who refuses instruction, but he who regards reproof shall be honored.

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    11 My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; nor be weary of his correction:

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    10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

  • Ps 55:12
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    24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

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    18 Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

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    27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.

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    21 These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.