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

In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying the land, have rent their garments,

And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, 'Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, 'Let not the king say so.'

Ye may not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.

let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

for it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit,

General references

and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,