Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Ye simple
The scorners
General references
Bible References
Ye simple
Proverbs 7:7
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Proverbs 9:4
Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,
Psalm 94:8
Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
Matthew 9:13
But go and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
Luke 19:42
Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong unto your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes.
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is thirsty come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
The scorners
Proverbs 3:34
Surely he scorns the scornful: but he gives grace unto the lowly.
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.
Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scoffers and stripes for the back of fools.
Proverbs 21:11
When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
2 Peter 3:3
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
General references
Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?
Proverbs 8:5
O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be of an understanding heart.
Proverbs 9:4
Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,
Jeremiah 17:19
Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
Matthew 22:9
Go you therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage.
John 1:5
And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness overcame it not.