Proverbs 15:32
He who will not be controlled by training has no respect for his soul, but he who gives ear to teaching will get wisdom.
Proverbs 1:24-33
Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:
Deuteronomy 21:20
And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
Proverbs 5:11-13
And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
Proverbs 8:33-36
Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.
Proverbs 15:14
The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.
Proverbs 15:21
Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.
Proverbs 17:16
How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.
Proverbs 29:1
A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.
Isaiah 1:5
Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
Ezekiel 24:13-14
As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.
Matthew 7:24-27
Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;
Hebrews 12:15
Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
Revelation 3:19
To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.