Proverbs 15:32 - The Scriptures 2009

³² He who ignores discipline hates himself, But he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: But he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² He who refuses and ignores instruction and correction despises himself, but he who heeds reproof gets understanding.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; But he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.

Common English Bible

³² Those who refuse discipline despise themselves, but those who listen to correction gain understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² Whoever rejects discipline despises his own soul. But whoever agrees to correction is a possessor of the heart.

Proverbs 15:32 Cross References

Psalm 50:17

“While you hated instruction And cast My Words behind you?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of יהוה is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 10:17

He who heeds discipline is in the way of life, But he who refuses reproof goes astray.

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and shame are for him Who ignores discipline, But he who heeds reproof is esteemed.

Proverbs 15:14

The heart of the understanding one seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

Proverbs 15:21

Folly is joy to one lacking heart, But a man of understanding walks straight.

Proverbs 15:31

An ear that hears the reproof of life Does dwell among the wise.

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of יהוה is the discipline of wisdom, And before esteem is humility.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father’s discipline, But he who heeds reproof is clever.

Proverbs 17:16

Why is this – a price in the hand Of a fool to buy wisdom, When there is no heart?

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the understanding one gets knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to counsel and accept discipline, So that you are wise in your latter end.

Proverbs 29:1

One often reproved, hardening his neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for man to hear the song of fools.

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be stricken any more? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on their faces witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Seḏom; they do not hide it. Woe to their being! For they have brought evil upon themselves.

Jeremiah 5:3

O יהוה, are Your eyes not on truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces stronger than rock, they refused to turn back.

Deuteronomy 21:18

When a man has a wayward and rebellious son who is not listening to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have disciplined him, does not listen to them,”

Deuteronomy 21:20

and shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is wayward and rebellious. He is not listening to our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one falls short of the favour of Elohim, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, by which many become defiled,

James 1:22

And become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Revelation 3:19

“As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. So be ardent and repent.