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 beheld the simple people: and among other young folks I spied one young fool
Proverbs 9:4
"Whoso is ignorant, let him come hither!" And to the unwise she said,
Psalm 94:8
Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand?
Matthew 9:13
Go and learn, what that meaneth: 'I have pleasure in mercy, and not in offering.' For I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance."
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek, and lowly of heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matthew 23:37
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee: how often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathereth her chicks under her wings? But ye would not.
Luke 19:42
saying, "If thou hadst known those things which belong unto thy peace, even at thy time: But now are they hid from thine eyes.
Revelation 22:17
And the spirit and the bride said, "Come." And let him that heareth, say also "Come." And let him that is athirst come. And let whosoever will, take of the water of life free.
The scorners
Proverbs 3:34
As for the scornful, he shall laugh them to scorn, but he shall give grace unto the lowly.
Proverbs 14:6
A scornful body seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy to come by, unto him that will understand.
Proverbs 15:12
A scornful body loveth not one that rebuketh him; neither will he come among the wise.
Proverbs 19:29
Punishments are ordained for the scornful, and stripes for fools' backs.
Proverbs 21:11
When the scornful is punished, the ignorant take the better heed; and when a wise man is warned, he will receive the more understanding.
Job 34:7
Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water?
Psalm 1:1
O Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.
2 Peter 3:3
This first understand: that there shall come in the last days mockers, which will walk after their own lusts
General references
Job 34:7
Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water?
Proverbs 8:5
Take heed unto knowledge, O ye ignorant; be wise in heart, O ye fools.
Proverbs 9:4
"Whoso is ignorant, let him come hither!" And to the unwise she said,
Jeremiah 17:19
Again, thus hath the LORD said unto me, "Go stand under the gate, wherethrough the people and the kings of Judah go out and in; yea, under all the gates of Jerusalem,
Matthew 22:9
Go ye therefore out into the highways, and as many as ye find, bid them to the marriage.'
John 1:5
And the light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not.