Proverbs 15:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:7

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one other by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies anything favorable about me but only disaster.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let the king not say such a thing.”

Job 21:14

They say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.

Proverbs 1:22

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

Proverbs 13:1

A wise child loves discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 14:6

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

Proverbs 15:10

There is severe discipline for one who forsakes the way; one who hates a rebuke will die.

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who reproves in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires