Proverbs 15:31
The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.
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Proverbs 15:31
The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.
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Leviticus 19:17
Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.
Proverbs 15:12
The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.
Proverbs 17:10
A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
Proverbs 27:5
Better is open protest than love kept secret.
Proverbs 29:15
The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.
Amos 5:10
They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.
John 3:20
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
Ephesians 5:11
And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
Ephesians 5:12
For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.
Ephesians 5:13
But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light.
2 Timothy 4:2
Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;
Titus 1:13
This witness is true. So say sharp words to them so that they may come to the right faith,
Titus 2:15
On all these points give teaching and help, and make clear what is right with all authority. Let all men give you honour.
Hebrews 12:9
And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
Revelation 3:19
To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.
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1 Samuel 25:31
Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.
1 Samuel 25:32
And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:
1 Samuel 25:33
A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.
1 Samuel 25:34
For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.
Proverbs 1:8
My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
Proverbs 1:9
For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
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2 Chronicles 24:2
And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.
John 15:3
You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
John 15:4
Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.
1 John 2:19
They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.
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Nehemiah 5:5
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
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Job 19:4
And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.
Psalms 25:13
His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.
Psalms 49:12
But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
Isaiah 1:21
The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
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Proverbs 5:9
For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
Proverbs 5:10
And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
Proverbs 5:11
And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
Proverbs 5:13
I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!
Proverbs 5:14
I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
Proverbs 6:33
Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
Proverbs 19:6
Great numbers will make attempts to get the approval of a ruler: and every man is the special friend of him who has something to give.
Isaiah 55:3
Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
Jeremiah 5:4
Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
Jeremiah 5:6
And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
Jeremiah 5:7
How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.
Jeremiah 5:8
They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
Jeremiah 5:9
Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
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Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.
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Proverbs 14:33
Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.
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Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear and the seeing eye are equally the Lord's work.
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2 Timothy 3:16
Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.
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Hebrews 12:25
See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?
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