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Ecclesiastes 7:5
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.

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Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

1 Peter 4:3
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

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Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Proverbs 17:10
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

Proverbs 27:5
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Proverbs 27:6
The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

Proverbs 15:31
The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

Proverbs 15:32
He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Hebrews 12:5
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

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