Proverbs 9:8

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Summary

Proverbs 9:8

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Reprove

Hebrews 6:4

General references

Luke 3:19

Bible References

Reprove

Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the prudence of thy words.

He that being often reproved hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy.

And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, who were of those that had spied out the land, rent their clothes;

And the king of Israel replied unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah, the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you.

Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

For it is impossible that those who once received the light and tasted of that heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit

General references

Then Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife and for all the evils which Herod had done,