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Proverbs 5:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

and you will say, ‘How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.

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Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but one who hates correction is stupid.


A fool despises his father’s discipline, but a person who accepts correction is sensible.


since you neglected all my counsel and did not accept my correction,


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


The fear of the  Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.


So I sent you all my servants the prophets time and time again,  , saying, “Don’t commit this detestable action that I hate.”


Poverty and disgrace come to those who ignore discipline, but the one who accepts correction will be honoured.


But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers,  despising his words,  and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.


While he was still speaking to him, the king asked, ‘Have we made you the king’s counsellor? Stop, why should you lose your life? ’ So the prophet stopped, but he said, ‘I know that God intends to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.’


‘Get out of the way! ’ they said, adding, ‘This one came here as a foreigner, but he’s acting like a judge!  Now we’ll do more harm to you than to them.’ They put pressure on Lot and came up to break down the door.


For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.


At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed,


but the one who misses me  harms himself; all who hate me love death.’


The one who follows instruction is on the path to life, but the one who rejects correction goes astray.





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