Proverbs 5:12

A Conservative Version

and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:1

He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is brutish.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.

Proverbs 1:25

but ye have made all my counsel void, and want none of my reproof,

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Jeremiah 44:4

However I sent all my servants the prophets to you, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and shame [are to] him who refuses correction, but he who regards reproof shall be honored.

Psalm 50:17

since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee?

Psalm 73:22

So I was brutish, and ignorant. I was a beast before thee.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

2 Chronicles 25:16

And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, Have we made thee of the king's counsel? Cease. Why should thou be smitten? Then the prophet ceased, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee,

Genesis 19:9

And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will be a judge. Now we will deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed greatly upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the doo

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Proverbs 5:11

and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

Proverbs 8:36

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.

Proverbs 10:17

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof errs.