Proverbs 27:22

New King James Version

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

Cross References

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, But they have not grieved; You have consumed them, But they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to return.

Proverbs 23:35

“They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?”

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints.

Exodus 12:30

So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Exodus 14:5

Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people; and they said, “Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, My hand shall destroy them.’

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

1 Samuel 19:21

And when Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. Then Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also.

1 Kings 13:33

After this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from every class of people for the high places; whoever wished, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

Proverbs 14:24

The crown of the wise is their riches, But the foolishness of fools is folly.