Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
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Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
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Genesis 19:8
See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
Genesis 19:9
They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.
1 Kings 18:17
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
1 Kings 21:20
Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
1 Kings 22:24
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
1 Kings 22:27
Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”
2 Chronicles 24:20
The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’ ”
2 Chronicles 24:21
They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
2 Chronicles 25:15
Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet who said to him, “Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?”
2 Chronicles 25:16
As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
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.
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2 Samuel 12:7
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
2 Samuel 12:8
I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
2 Samuel 12:9
Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 12:10
Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
2 Samuel 12:11
“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
2 Samuel 12:12
For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’ ”
2 Samuel 12:13
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
Isaiah 29:1
Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
Matthew 21:46
When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
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2 Chronicles 17:4
but sought the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.
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Job 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Job 13:15
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
Job 19:5
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
Job 32:12
Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.
Job 40:2
“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
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Job 24:13
“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
Job 24:14
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Job 24:15
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
Job 24:17
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
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Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
Proverbs 19:29
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
Proverbs 21:11
When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
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Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
Proverbs 22:17
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
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Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Proverbs 5:12
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
Luke 11:45
One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”
John 3:18
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.
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 3:21
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
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Proverbs 11:21
Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
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Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
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Genesis 20:16
To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”
Leviticus 19:17
“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
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 13:18
Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
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 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Isaiah 29:21
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
Matthew 18:15
“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
1 Timothy 5:20
Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,
Titus 2:15
Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.
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Proverbs 15:4
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
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Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
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Proverbs 15:14
The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
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Proverbs 20:14
“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
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Proverbs 20:16
Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
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Proverbs 23:24
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
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Isaiah 5:1
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
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Daniel 12:4
But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”
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Hosea 5:1
“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
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Matthew 12:42
The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
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Matthew 11:2
Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
Matthew 12:1
At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
Matthew 14:3
For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.
Matthew 14:4
For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
Mark 6:17
For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.
Mark 6:18
For John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
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Proverbs 12:3
A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
James 1:24
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
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