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Proverbs 1:22
Proverbs 1:22 is verse 22 of Proverbs chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
King James Version
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
World English Bible
“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 1:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible
20 Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
21 in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
23 If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
24 Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 6:9How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
Exodus 16:28Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
Numbers 14:27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
Matthew 17:17“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”
Proverbs 7:7I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
Proverbs 9:4“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
Proverbs 9:5“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.
Proverbs 9:6Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
Proverbs 9:16“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
Proverbs 9:18But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Psalms 94:8Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
Matthew 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 11:29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:30For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Luke 19:42and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
Revelation 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
Proverbs 3:34He mocks the mockers, but gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 14:6A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
Proverbs 15:12A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.
Proverbs 19:29Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
Proverbs 21:11When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; and when a wise man is instructed, he acquires knowledge.
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 Peter 3:3Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
John 3:20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.