Proverbs 9:8

World English Bible (2000)

Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

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  • Ps 141:5 : 5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
  • Prov 13:18 : 18 Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
  • 1 Kgs 1:23 : 23 They told the king, saying, "Behold, Nathan the prophet!" When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
  • 1 Kgs 1:32 : 32 King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king.
  • 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."
  • Lev 19:17 : 17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
  • Num 14:6-9 : 6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes: 7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. 8 If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. 9 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don't fear them." 10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 12:7-9 : 7 Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. 8 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things. 9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' 11 "This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'" 13 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die. 14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."
  • Prov 15:12 : 12 A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
  • Prov 23:9 : 9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
  • Prov 28:23 : 23 One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."
  • Gal 2:11-14 : 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. 7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God; 8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
  • 2 Pet 3:15-16 : 15 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you; 16 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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  • Prov 15:12
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  • Prov 9:9
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  • Prov 13:1
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    1 A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

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

  • Prov 17:9-10
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  • Prov 29:8-9
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    8 Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

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  • Prov 14:6
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    6 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

  • Prov 21:11
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    11 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

  • Prov 13:18
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    18 Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

  • Prov 22:10
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    10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

  • Prov 15:5
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    5 A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

  • Prov 15:31-32
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    31 The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

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  • Prov 15:10
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    10 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

  • Eccl 7:5
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    5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

  • Prov 28:23
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    23 One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

  • Prov 12:8
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    8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

  • Prov 9:12
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    12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

  • Prov 24:9
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    9 The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

  • Prov 10:17
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    17 He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

  • Amos 5:10
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    10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • Prov 5:12
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  • Prov 1:22-23
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  • Job 13:9-10
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  • Prov 25:12
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    12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

  • Prov 14:17
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    17 He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

  • Prov 8:33
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    33 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.

  • Lev 19:17
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    17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

  • Prov 19:8
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    8 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4 Don't answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

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  • Prov 29:1
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  • Prov 15:1
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  • Prov 1:5
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  • Prov 1:25
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    13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

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    29 Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.