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 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
For he willdespise the wisdom of your words.
For he will
Proverbs 29:1 A man who hardens his neck after much reproof
Willsuddenly be broken beyond remedy.
Will
Numbers 14:6
Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” But Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
Matthew 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
Hebrews 6:4
For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
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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,