Proverbs 12:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ WHOEVER LOVES instruction and correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is like a brute beast, stupid and indiscriminating.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Common English Bible

¹ Those who love discipline love knowledge, and those who hate correction are stupid.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge. But whoever hates correction is unwise.

Proverbs 12:1 Cross References

Proverbs 15:10

There is severe discipline for one who forsakes the way; one who hates a rebuke will die.

Proverbs 18:1

The one who lives alone is self-indulgent, showing contempt for all sound judgment.

Psalm 92:6

The dullard cannot know; the stupid cannot understand this:

Psalm 32:9

Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding, whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not stay near you.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Proverbs 8:32

“And now, my children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.

Isaiah 1:3

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

Psalm 119:27

Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.

Psalm 50:17

For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

Proverbs 8:36

but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 11:31

If the righteous are repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Proverbs 12:2

The good obtain favor from the Lord, but those who devise evil he condemns.

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am too stupid to be human; I do not have human understanding.

Leviticus 13:10

The priest shall make an examination, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

Psalm 141:5

Let the righteous strike me; let the faithful correct me. Never let the oil of the wicked anoint my head, for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.

Proverbs 10:8

The wise of heart will heed commandments, but one with foolish lips will come to ruin.