Proverbs 1:29

World English Bible (2000)

because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
  • Isa 30:9-9 : 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh; 10 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. 11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." 12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her."
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
  • Acts 7:51-54 : 51 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. 52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. 53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!" 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
  • Ps 50:16-17 : 16 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, 17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

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    30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

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

  • Prov 1:28
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    28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

  • Prov 1:7
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    7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

  • Job 34:27
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    27 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,

  • Job 21:14
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    14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.

  • Prov 8:13
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    13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

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

    23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

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

    25 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

  • Prov 5:12-13
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    12 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

    13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

  • Isa 66:4
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    4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."

  • Ps 50:17
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    17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

  • Jer 9:13
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    13 Yahweh says, 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 The way of peace, they haven't known."

    18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

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

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

  • Jer 4:22
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    22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

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

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

  • Prov 12:1
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    1 Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

  • Zeph 1:6
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    6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

  • Hos 4:6
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    6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

  • Ps 36:1
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    1 An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

  • Jer 8:9
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    9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?

  • Rom 1:28
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    28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

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    11 because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

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    4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

  • Rom 1:21-22
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    21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

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  • Deut 32:19
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    19 Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Jer 32:33
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    33 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

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    7 I said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won't be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her." But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

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    10 Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.

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    24 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who 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 don't call on Yahweh?

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    12 But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

  • Hos 10:3
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  • Ps 28:5
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    5 Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

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    4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

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    10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

  • Isa 29:13
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    13 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

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    32 He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

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    13 "These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

  • Job 28:28
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    28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

  • Prov 28:5
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    5 Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.