Proverbs 14:6
The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
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Proverbs 14:6
The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
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Genesis 49:15
And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.
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Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!
Psalms 81:11
But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
Psalms 81:13
If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
Proverbs 17:16
How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?
Proverbs 21:26
All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.
Isaiah 5:19
Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.
Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:
Hosea 4:11
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
Hosea 7:5
On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.
Acts 13:41
See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.
Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching.
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Deuteronomy 33:3
All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings.
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1 Samuel 2:25
If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.
Proverbs 9:7
He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.
Proverbs 9:8
Do not say sharp words to a man of pride, or he will have hate for you; make them clear to a wise man, and you will be dear to him.
1 Peter 5:5
And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
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1 Samuel 18:23
And Saul's servants said these things to David. And David said, Does it seem to you a small thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, of no great name?
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.
Job 28:28
And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
Psalms 34:14
Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.
Psalms 37:27
Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.
Proverbs 14:16
The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.
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Job 34:7
What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
Psalms 35:16
Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.
Proverbs 19:25
When blows overtake the man of pride, the simple will get sense; say sharp words to the wise, and knowledge will be made clear to him.
Jeremiah 15:17
I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.
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Psalms 10:5
His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.
Psalms 92:5
O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.
Psalms 92:6
A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.
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Psalms 19:7
The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.
Psalms 19:8
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
Psalms 25:9
He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.
Psalms 25:12
If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.
Psalms 25:13
His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.
Psalms 25:14
The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.
Proverbs 18:1
He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.
Isaiah 35:8
And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.
Micah 2:7
Is the Lord quickly made angry? are these his doings? do not his words do good to his people Israel?
1 Corinthians 2:11
For who has knowledge of the things of a man but the spirit of the man which is in him? in the same way, no one has knowledge of the things of God but the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.
1 John 2:20
And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.
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Psalms 119:18
Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.
John 6:44
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
Acts 16:14
And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.
1 Corinthians 1:23
But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;
1 Corinthians 2:8
Of which not one of the rulers of this world had knowledge: for if they had, they would not have put the Lord of glory on the cross:
2 Corinthians 4:4
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.
2 Corinthians 4:6
Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:20
And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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Proverbs 2:16
To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
Proverbs 20:14
A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.
Proverbs 20:16
Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
Proverbs 22:10
Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.
Proverbs 24:9
The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.
Proverbs 29:8
Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.
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Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them.
Proverbs 8:10
Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.
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Proverbs 1:21
Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
Proverbs 1:23
Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
Proverbs 1:24
Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
Proverbs 1:25
You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
Proverbs 1:26
So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
Proverbs 1:27
When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
Proverbs 1:28
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
Proverbs 13:13
He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.
Ecclesiastes 10:15
The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.
Isaiah 1:15
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Luke 13:24
Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.
John 8:21
Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.
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Proverbs 14:2
He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.
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Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.
Proverbs 14:4
Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.
Proverbs 14:5
A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.
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Proverbs 21:11
When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.
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Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.
Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.
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Isaiah 29:20
For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off:
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Isaiah 30:10
Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.
Ezekiel 14:4
For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;
Ezekiel 14:5
So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.
Ezekiel 14:6
For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: Come back and give up your false gods and let your faces be turned from your disgusting things.
Ezekiel 14:7
When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:
Ezekiel 14:8
And my face will be turned against that man, and I will make him a sign and a common saying, cutting him off from among my people; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 14:9
And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything, it is I the Lord by whom he has been tricked, and I will put out my hand against him, and he will be cut off from among my people Israel.
Ezekiel 14:10
And the punishment of their sin will be on them: the sin of the prophet will be the same as the sin of him who goes to him for directions;
John 3:21
But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.
John 12:42
However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:
John 12:43
For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.
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Isaiah 58:2
Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.
Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Isaiah 58:4
If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
Ezekiel 33:32
And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.
Mark 6:18
For John said to Herod, It is wrong for you to have your brother's wife.
Mark 6:19
And Herodias was bitter against him, desiring to put him to death; but she was not able;
Mark 6:20
For Herod was in fear of John, being conscious that he was an upright and holy man, and kept him safe. And hearing him, he was much troubled; and he gave ear to him gladly.
Luke 23:8
Now when Herod saw Jesus he was very glad, having for a long time had a desire to see him, for he had had accounts of him, and was hoping to see some wonders done by him.
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Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
Isaiah 8:20
Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ...If they do not say such things. ...For him there is no dawn. ...
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?
Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
Romans 1:21
Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.
Romans 1:22
Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
Romans 1:23
And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.
Romans 1:28
And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:
1 Corinthians 8:2
If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;
Ephesians 5:11
And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
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Ezekiel 20:1
Now it came about in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the responsible men of Israel came to get directions from the Lord and were seated before me.
Ezekiel 20:2
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 20:3
Son of man, say to the responsible men of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Have you come to get directions from me? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no directions from me.
Ezekiel 20:4
Will you be their judge, O son of man, will you be their judge? make clear to them the disgusting ways of their fathers,
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Matthew 24:23
Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him;
Matthew 24:24
For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.
Matthew 24:25
See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about.
Matthew 24:26
If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.
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John 13:33
My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.
Romans 10:3
Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
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Deuteronomy 29:4
But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
Amos 8:12
And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.
Matthew 12:30
Whoever is not with me is against me; and he who does not take part with me in getting people together, is driving them away.
Matthew 13:15
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
Matthew 13:16
But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.
Acts 28:26
Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
Acts 28:27
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
Romans 11:8
As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.
Romans 11:9
And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:
Romans 11:10
Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.
2 Timothy 3:6
For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,
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Proverbs 26:12
Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
Matthew 6:22
The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.
John 9:29
We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.
Acts 17:18
And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.
Romans 1:24
For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
Romans 1:25
Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.
Romans 1:26
For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:
Romans 1:27
And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.
2 Peter 3:5
But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;
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1 Corinthians 3:1
And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:2
I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;
1 Corinthians 3:3
Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?
1 Corinthians 3:4
For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?
Ephesians 4:14
So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;
Hebrews 5:11
Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.
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2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;
2 Timothy 4:4
And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.
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Psalms 25:11
Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.
Daniel 12:10
Till a number are tested and make themselves clean; and the evil-doers will do evil; for not one of the evil-doers will have knowledge; but all will be made clear to those who are wise.
John 6:52
Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?
1 John 2:27
As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.
1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
Jude 1:19
These are the men who make divisions, natural men, not having the Spirit.
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