Proverbs 15:12

English Standard Version 2016

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Cross References

Amos 5:10

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.

Job 21:14

They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

John 7:7

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

Proverbs 15:10

There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; whoever hates reproof will die.

2 Chronicles 18:7

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son hears his father’s instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.