Proverbs 15:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him; he will not consult the wise.

Cross References

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate, and they despise  the one who speaks with integrity.

Job 21:14

Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We don’t want to know your ways.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine,  but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate   you, but it does hate me because I testify about it #– #that its works are evil.

Proverbs 15:10

Discipline is harsh for the one who leaves the path; the one who hates correction will die.

2 Chronicles 18:7

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, ‘There is still one man who can enquire of the Lord, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.’ ‘The king shouldn’t say that,’ Jehoshaphat replied.

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son responds to his father’s discipline, but a mocker doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 1:22

‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers  enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 14:6

A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.