Verse 1

The one who loves discipline loves knowledge, but the one who hates reproof is stupid.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:97-99 : 97 מ(Mem) O how I love your law! All day long I meditate on it. 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for I am always aware of them. 99 I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules. 100 I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts.
• Prov 15:10 : 10 Severe discipline is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof will die.
• 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.
• Prov 9:7-8 : 7 Whoever corrects a mocker is asking for insult; whoever reproves a wicked person receives abuse. 8 Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you.
• Prov 18:1 : 1 One who has isolated himself seeks his own desires; he rejects all sound judgment.
• Ps 32:9 : 9 Do not be like an unintelligent horse or mule, which will not obey you unless they are controlled by a bridle and bit.
• Ps 92:6 : 6 The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.
• Ps 119:27 : 27 Help me to understand what your precepts mean! Then I can meditate on your marvelous teachings.
• Isa 1:3 : 3 An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”
• Prov 2:10-11 : 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you. 11 Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
• Prov 5:12-13 : 12 And you will say,“How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof! 13 For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.
• Prov 8:17 : 17 I will love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.
• Prov 8:32 : 32 “So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.