Proverbs 5:12

English Standard Version 2016

and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Cross References

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 1:25

because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,

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 1:7

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

Jeremiah 44:4

Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.

Psalm 50:17

For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

Psalm 73:22

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

2 Chronicles 25:16

But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”

Genesis 19:9

But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Proverbs 5:11

and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,

Proverbs 8:36

but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 10:17

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.