Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
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Bible References
Reprove
Proverbs 23:9
Speak not in the ears of a foolish man, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 29:1
He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy.
Numbers 14:6
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their garments.
1 Kings 22:8
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, for he prophesies no good concerning me, but evil: it is Micah the son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, and turning round rend you.
Matthew 15:14
Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.
Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
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Luke 3:19
But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,