Proverbs 13:18
Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 15:31-32
An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.
Psalm 141:5
The righteous doth beat me in kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer is about their vexations.
Proverbs 5:9-14
Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,
Proverbs 9:9
Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.
Proverbs 12:1
Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 13:13
Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed.
Proverbs 19:6
Many entreat the face of the noble, And all have made friendship to a man of gifts.
Proverbs 25:12
A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, Is the wise reprover to an attentive ear.
Jeremiah 5:3-9
Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.
Hebrews 12:25
See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,