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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Bible References
But
Proverbs 1:22
"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 5:12
and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!"
Proverbs 15:5
A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool will not take pleasure in understanding, but in expressing his heart.
John 3:18
The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
Romans 1:28
And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,
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Deuteronomy 32:28
For {they are a nation void of sense}, and there is not [any] understanding in them.