Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
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Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
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Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
Proverbs 1:21
She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
Proverbs 8:2
On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
Proverbs 8:3
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:
Proverbs 8:4
“I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 5:12
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
Psalms 50:17
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
Proverbs 1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.
Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,
Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
Proverbs 1:30
They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
2 Chronicles 36:16
but they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
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Proverbs 1:4
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man—
Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Proverbs 7:7
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
Psalms 119:130
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
Proverbs 14:15
A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
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Exodus 16:28
Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
Proverbs 6:9
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
Numbers 14:27
“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.
Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
Matthew 17:17
Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
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Psalms 94:8
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Psalms 92:6
A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
Psalms 75:4
I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
Psalms 107:17
Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
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Proverbs 9:5
“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
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Proverbs 14:9
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
Proverbs 29:8
Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.
Proverbs 9:7
One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
Proverbs 19:29
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
Proverbs 21:24
The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.
Isaiah 28:14
Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
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Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”
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