Proverbs 15:12

Modern English Version

A scoffer does not love one who reproves him, nor will he go to the wise.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:7

Then the king of Israel responded to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man from whom we can seek the Lord, but I hate him because he does not prophesy anything good for me but always disaster. He is Micaiah the son of Imlah.” And Jehoshaphat said, “May the king not speak like this.”

Job 21:14

Therefore they say to God, ‘Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge.

Proverbs 13:1

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

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and does not find it, but knowledge comes easily to him who is discerning.

Proverbs 15:10

Discipline is severe for him who forsakes the way, and he who hates reproof will die.

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who prosecutes at the gate, and abhor the one who speaks with integrity.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you. But it hates Me, because I testify concerning it, that its works are evil.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when people will not endure sound teaching, but they will gather to themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, having itching ears,