Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
That
General references
Bible References
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Proverbs 1:22
“How long, O naive ones [you who are easily misled], will you love being simple-minded and undiscerning?
How long will scoffers [who ridicule and deride] delight in scoffing,
How long will fools [who obstinately mock truth] hate knowledge?
“How long, O naive ones [you who are easily misled], will you love being simple-minded and undiscerning?
How long will scoffers [who ridicule and deride] delight in scoffing,
How long will fools [who obstinately mock truth] hate knowledge?
Proverbs 5:12
And you say, “How I hated instruction and discipline,
And my heart despised correction and reproof!
And you say, “How I hated instruction and discipline,
And my heart despised correction and reproof!
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching [of the law] is light,
And reproofs (rebukes) for discipline are the way of life,
For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching [of the law] is light,
And reproofs (rebukes) for discipline are the way of life,
Job 21:14
“Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
“Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
Psalm 50:16
But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to recite My statutes
Or to take My covenant on your lips?
But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to recite My statutes
Or to take My covenant on your lips?
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry, they are broken off;
The women come andmake a fire with them.
For they are not a people of understanding,
Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them,
And He who created them will not be gracious to them.
When its branches are dry, they are broken off;
The women come and
For they are not a people of understanding,
Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them,
And He who created them will not be gracious to them.
Isaiah 30:9
For this is a rebellious people, lying sons,
Sons who refuse to listen to
The law and instruction of the Lord;
For this is a rebellious people, lying sons,
Sons who refuse to listen to
The law and instruction of the Lord;
John 3:20 For every wrongdoer hates the Light, and does not come to the Light [but shrinks from it] for fear that his [sinful, worthless] activities will be exposed and condemned.
Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked and stubborn people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always actively resisting the Holy Spirit. You are doing just as your fathers did.
Not
Luke 10:42 but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part [that which is to her advantage], which will not be taken away from her.”
Hebrews 11:25
because he preferred to endure the hardship of the people of God rather than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.
General references
John 1:5
The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it].