Proverbs 1:22

New King James Version

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.

Cross References

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

Psalm 94:8

Understand, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when will you be wise?

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

Exodus 16:28

And the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?

Proverbs 1:21

She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words:

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the Lord,

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them;

Proverbs 1:4

To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion—

Proverbs 1:7

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

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it, But knowledge is easy to him who understands.

Proverbs 15:12

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

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 21:11

When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise; But when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Proverbs 21:24

A proud and haughty man— “Scoffer” is his name; He acts with arrogant pride.

Proverbs 22:3

A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.

Proverbs 3:34

Surely He scorns the scornful, But gives grace to the humble.

Proverbs 5:12

And say: “How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?

Proverbs 7:7

And saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man devoid of understanding,

Proverbs 8:5

O you simple ones, understand prudence, And you fools, be of an understanding heart.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your adulteries And your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your harlotry, Your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you still not be made clean?”

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Numbers 14:27

“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.

Matthew 17:17

Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Matthew 9:13

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Luke 19:42

saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

John 3:20

For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,

Revelation 22:17

And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.