Proverbs 12:1

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Proverbs 12:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.

2 The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.

3 A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

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Proverbs 2:10

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

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Proverbs 8:32

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

Proverbs 18:1

He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

Psalms 119:27

Make clear to me the way of Your precepts; then I will meditate on Your wonders.

Psalms 119:97

Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

Psalms 119:98

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.

Psalms 119:99

I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.

Psalms 119:100

I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

Proverbs 5:12

and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 5:13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Proverbs 9:7

He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.

Proverbs 9:8

Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Psalms 32:9

Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.

Psalms 92:6

A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”