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 ones, among the youths, a young man with no understanding,
Proverbs 9:4
The simple one, let him turn in here. To one lacking heart, she says to him,
Psalm 94:8
Understand, you beastly ones among the people; and fools, when will you be wise?
Matthew 9:13
But go and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 11:29
Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
Luke 19:42
saying, If you had known, even you, even at least in this day of yours, the things for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let the one hearing say, Come! And let the one who is thirsty come. And he willing, let him take of the Water of Life freely.
The scorners
Proverbs 3:34
Surely He scorns the scorners; but He gives grace to the lowly.
Proverbs 14:6
A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
Proverbs 15:12
A scorner does not love one who corrects him, nor will he go to the wise.
Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Proverbs 21:11
When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water;
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful.
2 Peter 3:3
First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts
General references
Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water;
Proverbs 8:5
O simple ones, understand wisdom; and, fools, be of an understanding heart.
Proverbs 9:4
The simple one, let him turn in here. To one lacking heart, she says to him,
Jeremiah 17:19
So Jehovah said to me: Go and stand in the gates of the sons of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
Matthew 22:9
Therefore go into the exits of the highways, and as many as you shall find, invite them to the marriage.
John 1:5
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.