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 (stupid) (foolish) ones, will you love simplicity (foolishness) (stupidity)? The scoffers delight in scoffing. Fools hate knowledge!
Proverbs 5:12
You say: How I have hated instruction! My heart despised reproof.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who accepts discipline is prudent.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool (stupid person) does not like understanding when revealing his thoughts.
John 3:18
He who has an active faith in him is not judged. He who does not have an active faith has been judged already for he has not had faith in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Romans 1:28
They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting.
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Deuteronomy 32:28
My people have lost their good sense. They do not understand.