Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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Proverbs 1:22
“How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?
And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 5:12
And you say, “How I have hated instruction!
And my heart spurned reproof!
Proverbs 15:5
A fool rejects his father’s discipline,
But he who regards reproof is sensible.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool does not delight in understanding,
But only in revealing his own mind.
John 3:18
He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Romans 1:28
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,

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Deuteronomy 32:28
For they are a nation lacking in counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.