Proverbs 5:12

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Proverbs 5:12

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

How

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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

A fool rejects his father's instructions, but anyone who respects reproof acts sensibly.

You hate instruction and toss my words behind you.

Then, I was too stupid and didn't realize I was acting like a wild animal with you.

But they refused to pay attention, turned their backs, and stopped listening.

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

And my

because you neglected all my advice and did not want my correction,

Because the command is a lamp and the Law a light, rebukes that discipline are a way of life

The person who loves correction loves knowledge, but anyone who hates a rebuke is stupid.

Poverty and shame are for those who ignore correction, but whoever listens to instruction gains honor.

But they replied, "Get out of the way! This man came here as a foreigner, and now he's acting like a judge! So we're going to deal more harshly with you than with them." Then they pushed hard against the man (that is, against Lot), intending to break down the door.

Going out the next day, Moses noticed two Hebrew men fighting right in front of him. He told the one who was at fault, "Why did you strike your companion?"

Then Jehoiada the priest's son Zechariah was clothed by the Spirit of God, and he stood above the people and told them, "This is what God has to say: "Why are you breaking the LORD's commandments. You'll never be successful! Because you have abandoned the LORD, he has abandoned you.'"

But even while the prophet was speaking, the king asked him, "Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?" So the prophet stopped speaking, but he also said, "I know God has determined to destroy you, because you've done all this and ignored my counsel."

The LORD kept on speaking to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention to him,

but they mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until there was no remedy for the wrath of the LORD that arose to punish his people.

Yet I sent all my servants the prophets to you again and again, saying, "Don't do this repulsive thing that I hate."

Don't be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed: "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "It's time to turn from your evil lifestyles and from your evil actions," "but they would neither listen nor pay attention to me,'" declares the LORD.'