Proverbs 1:22
"How long will you simpletons love naivet?? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
Psalm 1:1
How blessed is the one who does not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand in the pathway with sinners, or sit in the assembly of scoffers!
Proverbs 1:29
Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord,
Proverbs 5:12
And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!
Exodus 10:3
So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him, "Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: 'How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!
Exodus 16:28
So the Lord said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?
Numbers 14:27
"How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.
Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!
Psalm 94:8
Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?
Proverbs 1:4
To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, and a discerning plan to the young person.
Proverbs 1:7
Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 3:34
Although he is scornful to arrogant scoffers, yet he shows favor to the humble.
Proverbs 6:9
How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?
Proverbs 7:7
and I saw among the naive -- I discerned among the youths -- a young man who lacked wisdom.
Proverbs 8:5
You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!
Proverbs 9:4-6
"Whoever is naive, let him turn in here," she says to those who lack understanding.
Proverbs 9:16-18
"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here," she says to those who lack understanding.
Proverbs 14:6
The scorner seeks wisdom but finds none, but understanding is easy for a discerning person.
Proverbs 15:12
The scorner does not love one who corrects him; he will not go to the wise.
Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.
Proverbs 21:11
When a scorner is punished, the naive becomes wise; when a wise person is instructed, he gains knowledge.
Matthew 9:13
Go and learn what this saying means: 'I want mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Matthew 11:29-30
Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 17:17
Jesus answered, "You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him here to me."
Matthew 23:37
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
Luke 19:42
saying, "If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
2 Peter 3:3
Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let the one who hears say: "Come!" And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wants it take the water of life free of charge.