Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

General references

Bible References

That

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?
Proverbs 5:12

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,
Job 21:14

“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?
Isaiah 27:11

When its branches are dry, they are broken off;
The women come and make 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.
Isaiah 30:9

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].