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
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Proverbs 1:22
"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 5:12
and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
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 one and only Son of God.
Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
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Deuteronomy 32:28
For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.