18 Bible Verses about Instruction

Lay hold upon instruction, thou shalt not let go: guard her for she is thy life.

Lay hold upon instruction, thou shalt not let go: guard her for she is thy life.

And Joshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, causing the people to understand to the law: and the people upon their standing.

And he began to speak freely in the synagogue: and . Priscilla and Aquila having heard him, took him, and set forth to him the way of God more accurately.

And in the third year to his kingdom he sent to his chiefs to the son of power, and to the servant of Jehovah, and to him Remembered of Jehovah, and to the Gift of God, and to Who as God, to teach in the cities of Judah.

And Philip having opened his mouth, and begun from this writing, announced to him the good news, Jesus.

And having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying,

And publicans came to be immersed, and said to him, Teacher, what shall we do?

Then Jesus having dismissed the crowds, went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.

And when he was alone, they about him with the twelve asked him of the parable.

And when he came into the house from the crowd, his disciples asked him of the parable.

And having asked him, saying, That the scribes say that Elias must first come.

Then, when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.

Straiten to a youth upon the mouth of his way, also when he shall grow old he will not depart from it.

Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons.

And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up.

And teach them to your sons to speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up

Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up.

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

And to teach the sons of Israel all the laws which Jehovah spake to them by the hand of Moses.

So that a later generation shall know; sons shall be born, they shall rise up and recount to their sons.

For they will be mocking upon the messengers of God, and despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, even to the bringing up the wrath of Jehovah against his people, even to no healing.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.

How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?

And the runners will be passing from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and even to Zebulon: and laughing upon them, and deriding over them.

And thou hatedst instruction, and thou wilt cast my words behind thee.

There was not a word from all that Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the gathering of Israel, and the women and the little ones and the stranger going in the midst of them.

Come, ye sons, hear to me: I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.

And Jehoash will do the straight in the eyes of Jehovah all his days which Jehoida the priest taught him.

My son, thou shalt not forget my law, and thy heart shall guard my commands:

And that from infancy thou hast known the holy letters, able to render thee wise to salvation by faith which in Christ Jesus.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

For the command is a lamp, and the law a light; and the way of life the reproof of instruction:

He loving instruction loved knowledge: and he hating reproof, is stupid.

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails planted of the masters of the gatherings; they were given from one shepherd.

And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.

I passed upon the field of the slothful man, and upon the vineyard of the man wanting heart; And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown. And I shall see and set my heart: I looked, I took instruction. read more.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down: And thy poverty came going about, and thy want as a man of shield.

And I gave my heart to seek and to search out in wisdom concerning all which was done under the heavens: this evil business God gave to the sons of man to be occupied in it I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit The crooked thing shall not be able to be made straight: and the deficiency shall not be able to be numberd read more.
It spake with my heart, saying, Behold, I was magnified, and added wisdom over all that were before me at Jerusalem: and my heart saw much of wisdom and knowledge. And I will give my heart to know wisdom, and the knowledge of praise and understanding: I knew this also it is the striving of the spirit For in abundance of wisdom, abundance of trouble: and he adding knowledge will increase pain.

For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress? Look ye upon the fowls of heaven; for they neither sow, nor reap, nor collect into stores; and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Do ye not rather differ from them Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size? read more.
And about dress, why are ye anxious? Consider the white lilies of the field, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin: And I say to you that neither Solomon in all his glory was surrounded as one of these. And if the grass of the field, being this day, and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes much rather you, ye of little faith!

The foolish will deride his father's instruction: and he watching reproof will be crafty.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.

In the ears of the foolish thou shalt not speak, for he will despise for the understanding of thy words.

And to the unjust one God said, What to thee to recount my law, and thou wilt lift up my covenant upon thy mouth? And thou hatedst instruction, and thou wilt cast my words behind thee.

He will instruct him, according to judgment his God will teaeh

O God, thou didst teach me from my youth: and even to this will I announce thy wonders.

For thus said Jehovah to me with strength of the hand, and he will turn me away from going in the way of this people, saying,

And the anointing which ye received from him remains in you, and ye have no need that any teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is true, and is no lie, and as it taught you, ye shall remain in him.

And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

And thy good spirit thou gavest to instruct them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and water gavest thou to them for their thirst

See, I taught you laws and judgments as Jehovah my God commanded me, to do thus in the midst of the land where ye are going there to possess it

Hear counsel and receive instruction, so that thou shalt be wise in thy latter state.

And now ye sons, hear to me: and the happy shall watch my ways. Hear ye instructions, and be wise, and ye shall not reject it

Bring thy heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one therefore having heard and learned of the Father, comes to me.

And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God.

He instructing him mocking received to himself dishonor: and he reproving to the unjust one, his blemish. Thou shalt not reprove him mocking, lest he shall hate thee: reprove to the wise one and he will love thee. Thou shalt give to the wise one and he will be more wise: make known to the just one and he will add receiving. read more.
The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah, and the knowledge of the holy ones is understanding.

In punishing him mocking, the simple shall become wise: and in instruction to the wise one he will take knowledge.

He driving away instruction despised his soul: and he hearing reproof obtained a heart

Instruction dismisses poverty and shame: and he watching reproof shall be honored.

Lay hold upon instruction, thou shalt not let go: guard her for she is thy life.

For the command is a lamp, and the law a light; and the way of life the reproof of instruction:

All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice: That the man of God might be perfect, finished for every good work.

Thus said Jehovah to me: Make to thee bonds and rods and give them upon thy neck, And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the sons of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of messengers coming to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah; And command them to say to their lords, Thus said Jehovah of armies God of Israel: Thus shall ye say to your lords: read more.
I made the earth, the man and the cattle which are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by mine arm stretched forth, and I gave it to whom was right in mine eyes. And now I gave all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, my servant; and also the beasts of the field gave I to him to serve him. And all the nations served him, and his son, and his son's son, even till the time itself also of his land came: and many nations and great kings served upon him. And it was the nation and kingdom which shall not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and which shall not give his neck in the yoke of the king of Babel, with the sword and with famine and with death I will review upon that nation, says Jehovah, even to my finishing them by his hand. And ye shall not hear to your prophets and to your divinations, and to your dreamers, and to those of you practicing magic, and to your sorcerers, which they are saying to you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babel: For they are prophesying a lie to you so as to remove you far off from your land; and I thrust you away, and ye perished. And the nation which shall bring his neck into the yoke of the king of Babel and serve him, and I gave him rest upon his land, says Jehovah; and he worked it, and dwelt in it

If ye heard him, and were taught in him, as is the truth in Jesus:

And they will turn to me the neck and not the face: and teaching them, and rising early and teaching, and they not hearing to receive instruction.

Cease, my son, to hear instructions for erring from the words of knowledge.

The path to life is watching instruction: and he forsaking reproof goes astray.

The understanding of him possessing it is a fountain of life: and the instruction of the foolish is folly.

A wise son the instruction of a father: and he. mocking heard not reproof.

He loving instruction loved knowledge: and he hating reproof, is stupid.

Son of man, thou shalt eat thy bread with trembling, and thou shalt drink thy water with disquiet and with dread; And say to the people of the land, Thus said the Lord Jehovah to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to the land of Israel: they shall eat their bread with dread, and they shall drink their waters with astonishment, that her land shall be laid waste from her fulness from the violence of all dwelling in her. And the cities being inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and they knew that I am Jehovah.

And thou son of man, take to thee one tree and write upon it, For Judah, and for the sons of Israel his company: and take one tree and write upon it, For Joseph, the tree of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel his company: And draw them near one to one to thee, for one tree; and they were for one in thine hand. And when the sons of thy people shall say to thee, saying, Wilt thou not announce to us what these to thee? read more.
Speak to them, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold I take the tree of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his company, and I gave them upon him with the tree of Judah, and ye made them for one tree, and they were one in my hand. And the trees which thou shalt write upon them were in thy hand before their eyes. And speak to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they went there, and I gathered them from round about, and I brought them to their land: And I made them for one nation in the land in the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be to them all for king: and they shall no more be for two nations, and they shall no more be divided into two kingdoms at all.

Son of man, behold me taking from thee-the desire of thine eyes with a blow: and thou. shalt not lament, and thou shalt not weep, and thy tears shall not go. Be silent to the sighing of blood, thou shalt not make mourning for the dead; bind thy head-dress upon thee, and thou shalt put thy shoes upon thy feet, and thou shalt not cover over the mustachios, and the bread of men thou shalt not eat And I shall speak to the people in the morning and my wife will die in the evening and I shall do in the morning as I was commanded. read more.
And the people will say to me, Wilt thou not announce to us what these things to us that thou doest? And saying to them, The word of Jehovah was to me, saying, Say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold me profaning my holy place, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the pity of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom ye left, shall fall by the sword. And ye did as I did: ye shall not cover over your mustachios, and the bread of men ye shall not eat And your head-dress uponyour heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not lament, and ye shall not weep; and ye pined away m your iniquities, and ye grieved a man to his brother. . And Ezekiel was to you for a wonder: according to all which he did ye shall do: in its coming, and ye knew that I am the Lord Jehovah. And thou son of man, was it not in the day, I took from them their strength, the joy of their glory the desire of their eyes, the lifting up of their soul, their sons and their daughters. In that day he escaping shall come to thee to cause to hear with the ears. In that day thy mouth shall be opened to him escaping and thou shalt speak, and thou shalt no more be dumb: and thou wert to them for a wonder, and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

And the people came up out of Jordan in the tenth to the first month, and they will encamp in Gilgal, in the extremity of the sunrising of Jericho. And these twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua set in Gilgal. And he will say to the sons of Israel, saying, When your sons shall ask their fathers to-morrow, saying, What these stones? read more.
And make ye known to your sons, saying, Upon dry land Israel passed through this Jordan. That Jehovah your God dried up the water of Jordan from before you till your passing through as Jehovah your God did to the sea of sedge which he dried up from before us till our passing through: So that all the people of the earth knew the hand of Jehovah that it is strong: so that ye shall fear Jehovah your God all the days.

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, They made to them fringes of flowers upon the wings of their garment for their generations; and they gave upon the fringes of the wing a thread of cerulean purple; And it was to you for fringes, and ye saw it, and ye remembered all the commands of Jehovah, and ye did them; and ye shall not seek after your heart, and after your eyes, which ye committed fornication after them.

And thou Son of man, make to thee vessels of captivity and emigrate by day before their eyes; and emigrating from thy place to another place before their eyes; perhaps they will see if they are a house of contradiction. And bring forth thy vessels as vessels of captivity by day, before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth in the evening before their eyes, as the goings forth of captivity. Before their eyes break through to thee in the wall, and bring forth by it read more.
Before their eyes upon the shoulder thou shalt lift up, in thick darkness thou shalt bring forth: thou shalt cover thy face, and thou shalt not see the earth: for I gave thee a wonder to the house of Israel. And I shall do thus as I was commanded: I brought forth the vessels as vessels of captivity by day, and in the evening I broke through for me in the wall with the hand; in the thick darkness I brought forth, upon the shoulder I lifted up before their eyes. And the word of Jehovah will be to me in the morning, saying, Son of man, did not the house of Israel, the house of contradiction, say to thee, What doest thou? Say to them, thus said the Lord Jehovah: The ruler of this burden in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel which they are in the midst of them. Say, I am your wonder: as I did, so it shall be done to them: by emigrating, they shall go into captivity. And the prince which is in the midst of them shall lift up upon the shoulder in thick darkness, and go forth: they shall break through into the wall to bring forth by it: he shall cover his face so that be shall not see the earth with the eye. And I spread my net upon him, and he was taken in my net: and I brought him to Babel the land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not see it, and there he shall die. And all which are round about him to help, and all his hosts, I will scatter to every wind; and I will draw out a sword after them. And they shall know that I am Jehovah, in my scattering them in the nations; and I scattered them in the lands. And I left of them men of number, from the sword and from famine, and from death, so that they shall recount all their abominations among the nations where they went there; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

Thus said Jehovah, Go and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and from the old men of the people and from the old men of the priests; And go forth to the valley of the, son of Hinnom, which is at the opening of the gate of the pottery, and call there the words which I shall speak to thee. And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and ye dwelling n Jerusalem; Thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel: Behold me bringing evil upon this place, which every one hearing. it, their ears shall tingle. read more.
Because they forsook me and rejected this place, and they will burn incense in it to other gods which they knew them not, they and their fathers, and the kings of Judah; and they filled this place with the blood of the innocent ones. And they built the heights of Baal to burn their sons with fire, burnt-offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, and I spake not, and it came not up upon my heart. For this, behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, and it shall no more be called to this place Tophet, and The valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter. And I emptied out the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them seeking their soul: and I gave their carcasses for food to the fowls of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth. And I set this city for a desolation, and for hissing: every one passing over it shall be astonished and shall hiss over all her blows. And I caused them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his neighbor shall they eat in the straitness and in the distress which their enemies, and they seeking their souls, shall press upon them. And break the bottle before the eyes of the men going with thee, And say to them, Thus said Jehovah of armies: According to this will I break this people and this city, as he will break the potter's vessel which shall not be able to be healed any more: and in Tophet shall they bury, from not a place to bury. Thus will I do to this place, says Jehovah, and to its inhabitants, and to give this city as Tophet:

Thus said Jehovah to me, Go buy for thee a girdle of linen, and put it upon thy loins, and thou shalt not cause it to come into water. And I shall buy the girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and I shall put upon my loins. And the word of Jehovah will be to me the second time, saying, read more.
Take the girdle that thou boughtest, which is upon thy loins, and arising, go to Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock. And I shall go and hide it by Euphrates as Jehovah commanded me. And it will be from the end of many days, and Jehovah will say to me, Rising, go to Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle which I commanded thee to hide it there. And I shall go to Euphrates, and dig, and take the girdle from the place which I hid it there: and behold, the girdle was corrupted, it will not profit for anything. And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, Thus said Jehovah, According to this I will corrupt the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. This evil people, refusing to hear my words, going in the stubbornness of their heart, and they will go after other gods to serve them and to worship to them, and it shall be as this girdle which shall not profit for anything. For as the girdle will adhere to the loins of a man, so did I cause to adhere to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah, says Jehovah: to be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for glory: and they heard not

I passed upon the field of the slothful man, and upon the vineyard of the man wanting heart; And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown. And I shall see and set my heart: I looked, I took instruction. read more.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down: And thy poverty came going about, and thy want as a man of shield.

And the word of Jehovah will be to me in the ninth year, in the teeth month, in the tenth to the month, saying, Son of man, write to thee the name of the day, this same day: the king of Babel set up against Jerusalem this same day. And use a parable against the house of contradiction and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Set on the pot, set on, and also pour water into it: read more.
Gather its pieces into it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill with the choice of the bones. Take the choice of the flock and also wheel the bones under it, boil its boilings; also they cooked the bones in the midst of it For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo to the city of bloods! the pot which the rust in it, and her rust went not forth from it; bring it forth by its pieces, by its pieces; the lot fell not upon it For her blood was in the midst of her; she set it upon a dry rock; she poured it not forth upon the earth to cover over it with dust; To cause wrath to come up, to avenge vengeance; I gave her blood upon the dry rock not to be covered. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo to the city of bloods! I will make her pile great Multiply the woods, kindle the fire, make ready the flesh, and spice with spicing, and the bones shall be burned. And cause it to stand upon its coals, empty, so that its brass shall be warm and burning, and its uncleanness was melted in the midst of it; its rust shall be consumed. She was wearied with labors, and her great rust shall not go forth from her: in the fire her rust In thy uncleanness is wickedness: because I cleansed thee and thou wert not cleansed, thou shalt no more be cleansed from thy uncleanness till my causing my wrath to rest upon thee. I Jehovah spake: it came, and I did; I will not let go loose, and I will not spare, and. I will not lament; according to thy ways and according to thy works they judged thee, says the Lord Jehovah.

In that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah, son of Amos, saying, Go loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thou shalt draw off the shoe from thy foot And he will do so, going naked and barefoot And Jehovah will say, As my servant Isaiah went naked and barefoot three years, a sign and miracle upon Egypt and upon Cush:

And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and the bean, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and give them into one vessel, and make them to thee for bread, the number of days which thou didst lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat it An thy food which thou shalt eat by weight, twenty shekels for a day: from time even to time shalt thou eat it. And water by measure shalt thou drink, the sixth of the bin: from time even to time shalt thou drink. read more.
And thou shalt eat it cakes of barley, and it shall be baked with dung coming forth of man, before their eyes. And Jehovah will say, Like this shall the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations where I shall thrust them away there. And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah behold, my soul not being defiled: and a carcass and the torn in pieces I ate not from my youth and even till now; there came not flesh of uncleanness into my mouth. And he will say to me, See, I gave to thee the dung of oxen instead of man's dung, and make thy bread upon them. And he will say to me, Son of man, behold me breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread by weight and with fear; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment So that they shall want bread and water, and they were astonished, a man and his brother, and they were melted in their iniquity.

And thou son of man, sigh with the breaking of the loins; and with bitterness thou shalt sigh before their eyes. And it was when they shall say to thee, For what sighest thou? and say, For the report, because it came: and every heart melted and all hands were relaxed, and every spirit was weak, and all knees shall go into water: behold, it came, and it was, says the Lord Jehovah.

And lie thou upon thy left side, and put the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: the number of days which thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt lift up their iniquity. And I gave to thee the years of their iniquity according to the number of days, three hundred and ninety days: and thou didst bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. And finishing these, and thou didst lie upon thy right side the second time, and thou didst bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: a day for a year, a day for a year I gave it to thee, read more.
And to the siege of Jerusalem thou shalt prepare thy face, and thine arm being uncovered and prophesy against her And behold, I gave bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn from thy side to thy side, even to thy finishing the days of thy siege.

And thou son of man take to thee a brick, and give thou it before thee, and delineate upon it the city Jerusalem; And give siege against it, and build a watch tower against it, and cast a mound against it, and give the camp against it, and set battering-rams against it round about And thou, take to thee an iron pan and give it a wall of iron between thee and between the city: and prepare thy face against it, and she was in siege, and press upon her. This a sign to the house of Israel.

And Moses will say, This the word which Jehovah commanded, Fill the omer from it for a preservation to your generations; so that they shall see the bread which I gave you to eat in the desert in my bringing you forth out of the land of Egypt

And Joshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, causing the people to understand to the law: and the people upon their standing.

And he began to speak freely in the synagogue: and . Priscilla and Aquila having heard him, took him, and set forth to him the way of God more accurately.

And in the third year to his kingdom he sent to his chiefs to the son of power, and to the servant of Jehovah, and to him Remembered of Jehovah, and to the Gift of God, and to Who as God, to teach in the cities of Judah.

And Philip having opened his mouth, and begun from this writing, announced to him the good news, Jesus.

And having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying,