19 Bible Verses about Acceptance, Of Instruction

Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee.

The wise in heart accepteth commands, And a talkative fool kicketh.

Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.

And the erring in spirit have known understanding, And murmurers learn doctrine!'

Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof, For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.

A traveller to life is he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

'As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, 'My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

and he said, 'Abba, Father; all things are possible to Thee; make this cup pass from me; but, not what I will, but what Thou.'

saying, 'Father, if Thou be counselling to make this cup pass from me -- ;but, not my will, but Thine be done.' --

And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.

The Lord Jehovah opened for me the ear, And I rebelled not -- backward I moved not.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;