Proverbs 15:32

New American Bible - revised edition

Those who disregard discipline hate themselves, but those who heed reproof acquire understanding.

Cross References

Psalm 50:17

You hate discipline; you cast my words behind you!

Proverbs 1:7

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

Proverbs 10:17

Whoever follows instruction is in the path to life, but whoever disregards reproof goes astray.

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and shame befall those who let go of discipline, but those who hold on to reproof receive honor.

Proverbs 15:14

The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

Proverbs 15:21

Folly is joy to the senseless, but the person of understanding goes the straight way.

Proverbs 15:31

The ear that listens to salutary reproof is at home among the wise.

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of the Lord is training for wisdom, and humility goes before honors.

Proverbs 15:5

The fool spurns a father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 17:16

Of what use is money in the hands of fools when they have no heart to acquire wisdom?

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the intelligent acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may eventually become wise.

Proverbs 29:1

Those stiff-necked in the face of reproof in an instant will be shattered beyond cure.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

It is better to listen to the rebuke of the wise than to listen to the song of fools;

Isaiah 1:5

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 3:9

Their very look bears witness against them; they boast of their sin like Sodom, They do not hide it. Woe to them! They deal out evil to themselves.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen to his father or mother, and will not listen to them even though they discipline him,

Deuteronomy 21:20

where they shall say to the elders of the city, “This son of ours is a stubborn and rebellious fellow who will not listen to us; he is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,

James 1:22

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.