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 I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking {sense},
Proverbs 9:4
"Whoever [is] simple, let him turn here." As for the one who lacks {sense}, she says to him,
Psalm 94:8
You pay attention, O brutes among the people. And [you] fools, when you will show insight?
Matthew 9:13
But go [and] learn what it means, "I want mercy and not sacrifice." For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 23:37
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together {the way} a hen gathers her young together under [her] wings, and you were not willing!
Luke 19:42
saying, "If you had known on this day--even you--the things [that make] for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And the one who hears, let him say, "Come!" And the one who is thirsty, let him come. The one who wants, let him take the water of life freely.
The scorners
Proverbs 3:34
With those who scorn, he is scornful, but to those who are humble, he gives favor.
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge {comes easily to him who understands}.
Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer does not like {his rebuke}; to the wise he will not go.
Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for the scoffers, and flogging for the back of fools.
Proverbs 21:11
With the punishment of a scoffer, the simple will become wise, and with the instruction of the wise, he will obtain knowledge.
Job 34:7
What man [is] like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of [the] wicked; nor does he stand in [the] way of sinners; nor does he sit in [the] assembly of mockers.
2 Peter 3:3
above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires
General references
Job 34:7
What man [is] like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
Proverbs 8:5
Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn {intelligence}.
Proverbs 9:4
"Whoever [is] simple, let him turn here." As for the one who lacks {sense}, she says to him,
Jeremiah 17:19
Thus said Yahweh to me, "Go, and you must stand in the {People's Gate} through which the kings of Judah enter, and through which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
Matthew 22:9
Therefore, go out to the [places where] the roads exit the city and invite to the wedding celebration as many [people] as you find.'
John 1:5
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.