Proverbs 15:12

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:7

The king of Yisra'el said to Yehoshafat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Mikhayahu the son of Imla. Yehoshafat said, Don't let the king say so.

Job 21:14

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.

Proverbs 1:22

*How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

Proverbs 15:10

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

Amos 5:10

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

John 7:7

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

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;