Proverbs 1:22

American King James Version (1999)

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Cross References

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 94:8

Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?

Exodus 10:3

And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 16:28

And the LORD said to Moses, How long refuse you to keep my commandments and my laws?

Proverbs 1:21

She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,

Proverbs 1:29

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 1:4

To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 14:6

A scorner seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy to him that understands.

Proverbs 15:12

A scorner loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go to the wise.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Proverbs 21:11

When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Proverbs 21:24

Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in proud wrath.

Proverbs 22:3

A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Proverbs 3:34

Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace to the lowly.

Proverbs 5:12

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

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

Proverbs 7:7

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

Proverbs 8:5

O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be you of an understanding heart.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your prostitution, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when shall it once be?

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

Numbers 14:27

How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

Matthew 17:17

Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him here to me.

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent to you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

Matthew 9:13

But go you and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Luke 19:42

Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong to your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes.

John 3:20

For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

2 Peter 3:3

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Revelation 22:17

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him take the water of life freely.