Verse 1

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:97-99 : 97 How I love your law! It is my meditation all day. 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
• Prov 15:10 : 10 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.
• 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• Prov 9:7-8 : 7 He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. 8 Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
• Prov 18:1 : 1 An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
• Ps 32:9 : 9 Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
• Ps 92:6 : 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
• Ps 119:27 : 27 Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
• Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."
• Prov 2:10-11 : 10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
• Prov 5:12-13 : 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!
• Prov 8:17 : 17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
• Prov 8:32 : 32 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.