Proverbs 1:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Cross References

Job 34:7

Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,

Psalm 1:1

Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers,

Psalm 94:8

Understand, O dullest of the people; fools, when will you be wise?

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may serve me.

Exodus 16:28

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and instructions?

Proverbs 1:21

At the busiest corner she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

Proverbs 1:29

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

Proverbs 1:32

For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 1:4

to teach shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and prudence to the young—

Proverbs 1:7

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

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for one who understands.

Proverbs 15:12

Scoffers do not like to be rebuked; they will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 19:29

Punishments are prepared for scoffers and flogging for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 21:11

When a scoffer is punished, the simple become wiser; when the wise are instructed, they increase in knowledge.

Proverbs 21:24

The proud, haughty person, named Scoffer, acts with arrogant pride.

Proverbs 22:3

The clever see danger and hide, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Proverbs 3:34

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.

Proverbs 5:12

and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?

Proverbs 7:7

and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the youths, a young man without sense,

Proverbs 8:5

O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your shameless prostitutions on the hills of the countryside. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

Numbers 14:27

“How long shall this wicked congregation complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, which they complain against me.

Matthew 17:17

Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

Matthew 9:13

Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.”

Luke 19:42

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

John 3:20

For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.

2 Peter 3:3

First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts

Revelation 22:17

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let everyone who hears say, “Come.” And let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.