Verse 1

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is foolish.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:97-99 : 97 MEM. Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. 98 You, through Your commandments, have made me wiser than my enemies; for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Your precepts.
  • Prov 15:10 : 10 Correction is grievous to him who forsakes the way, and he who hates reproof shall die.
  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
  • Prov 9:7-8 : 7 He who reproves a scoffer gets to himself shame: and he who rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot. 8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
  • Prov 18:1 : 1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddles with all wisdom.
  • Ps 32:9 : 9 Do not be like the horse or like the mule, which have no understanding, whose mouth must be controlled with bit and bridle, lest they come near you.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.
  • Ps 119:27 : 27 Make me understand the way of Your precepts, so shall I meditate on Your wondrous works.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
  • Prov 2:10-11 : 10 When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul; 11 Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;
  • Prov 5:12-13 : 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 my ear to those who instructed me!
  • Prov 8:17 : 17 I love those who love me; and those who seek me early shall find me.
  • Prov 8:32 : 32 Now therefore listen to me, O children, for blessed are those who keep my ways.