Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Bible References
But
Proverbs 1:22
How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 5:12
and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who listens to correction is wise.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may lay itself bare.
John 3:18
He who believes on Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
Romans 1:28
And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,
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Deuteronomy 32:28
For they are a nation without wisdom, neither is there any understanding in them.