Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

General references

Bible References

Scorner

Proverbs 15:10
Grievous punishment is for him who forsakes the way;
He who hates reproof will die.
Proverbs 9:7
He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself,
And he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate,
And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.
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.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

Neither

2 Chronicles 18:7
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me but always evil. He is Micaiah, son of Imla.” But Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
Job 21:14
“They say to God, ‘Depart from us!
We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.

General references

Proverbs 9:7
He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself,
And he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself.
Luke 3:19
But when Herod the tetrarch was reprimanded by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the wicked things which Herod had done,

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