18 Bible Verses about Instruction

Take firm hold of instruction and do not let go. Obey her for she is your life.

Take firm hold of instruction and do not let go. Obey her for she is your life.

And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places.

He spoke boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him home and explained God's word more accurately.

In the third year of his reign he sent out the following officials to teach in the cities of Judah: Benhail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah.

Then Philip began at the same Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

He opened his mouth and taught them:

Tax collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him: Teacher, what must we do?

Then he left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples gathered near him. They said: Explain to us the illustration of the weeds in the field.

When he was alone his followers including the twelve asked about the illustrations.

When he entered the house away from the crowd his disciples asked him to explain.

Then they asked him how is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said: Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you. Jesus said to him: Feed my lambs.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Be on your guard! Make sure you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up.

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

The Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind (gentle) to all, able to teach, and patient when wronged.

You must also teach the people of Israel everything that I commanded Moses to say to them.

That the generation to come might know, the children to be born, that they may arise and tell to their children,

They mocked God's messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.

Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

How long, you simple (stupid) (foolish) ones, will you love simplicity (foolishness) (stupidity)? The scoffers delight in scoffing. Fools hate knowledge!

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.

You hate discipline. You cast (throw) my words behind you.

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

Come, you sons, listen to me. I will teach you the respect of Jehovah.

Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest.

My son, do not forget my law. Let your heart obey my commandments.

From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

My son, listen to the instruction of your father. Do not forsake the law of your mother.

For the commandment is a lamp. The law is light. Reproofs for instruction are the way of life.

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge. He that hates reproof is stupid.

The words of the wise are like prodding goads, and like nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. They are given from one shepherd.

I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed for they had no one to comfort them. The oppressors had power but they had no one to comfort them.

I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man lacking understanding. It was all grown over with thorns and nettles, and the wall of stone was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well. I looked on it, and received instruction: read more.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. Your poverty will come like a robber and your want like an armed man.

I devoted myself to study and explored wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens. It is a grievous task God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. Behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. What is crooked cannot be made straight. What is lacking cannot be numbered. read more.
I said to my heart, I have become great and have acquired more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has seen an abundance of wisdom and knowledge. I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I know that this also is a striving after wind. In much wisdom there is much grief for he who increases knowledge increases pain.

I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink. And do not worry about your body, what you will wear. Is life worth more than food? And is the body worth more than clothes? Look at the birds of the sky, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you worth more than they? Can you live longer by worrying about it? read more.
Why are you worried about clothing? Look at how the lilies of the field grow. They do not toil. They do not spin. I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like these. If God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, won't he care for you even more? You of little faith!

A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who accepts discipline is prudent.

Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Do not speak to a fool for he will despise your wise words.

But God says to the wicked: How dare you quote my decrees and mouth my covenant! You hate discipline. You cast (throw) my words behind you.

He instructs him in right judgment and his God teaches him.

O God, You taught me from my youth, and I still declare your wondrous deeds.

This is what Jehovah said with his powerful hand on me. He warned me not to follow the ways of these people:

The anointing (special endowment of Holy Spirit) you received from Him is a part of you (is with you) and you do not need anyone (any human) to teach you. His anointing taught you concerning all things. It is no lie. It is truth, just as you were taught you live through him.

I do not need to write you about brotherly love. For God taught you to love one another.

You gave your good Spirit to be their teacher. You did not hold back your manna from their mouths. You gave them water when they had need of it.

I have taught you laws and rules as Jehovah my God commanded me. You must obey them when you enter the land and take possession of it.

Listen to counsel and accept instruction (discipline), that you may be wise in the future.

Listen to me, my children: for blessed are those who practice my ways. Hear instruction, do not refuse it and be wise.

Apply your heart to instruction (discipline), and your ears to words of knowledge.

It is written in the prophets: Jehovah shall teach them all. Every one who hears the Father and has learned comes to me. (Jeremiah 31:34)

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God. This is so we might know the things that are freely given to us from God.

Correct a scoffer and get dishonor for yourself. Rebuke a wicked man and receive insults. Correct a scoffer (mocker) (scorner) and he will hate you. Reprove a wise man and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man and he will become even wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning (insight). read more.
Respect for Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge of the holy One is understanding (discernment) (truth) (wisdom).

When the scoffer is punished the simple (naive) is made wise. When the wise is instructed he gains knowledge.

He who refuses instruction (discipline) despises his own life. But he who listens to reproof understands.

Poverty and shame come to all who reject discipline. He who accepts reproof will be honored.

Take firm hold of instruction and do not let go. Obey her for she is your life.

For the commandment is a lamp. The law is light. Reproofs for instruction are the way of life.

God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed) Thus the man of God may be completely equipped for every good work.

This is what Jehovah said to me: Make leather straps and a wooden yoke, and strap the yoke on your neck. Then send messages to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon, with messengers who have come to King Zedekiah of Judah in Jerusalem. Give them an order for their masters: This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Say this to your masters, read more.
I used my great strength and my powerful arm to make the earth along with the people and the animals on it. I give it to anyone I please. Now I have handed all these countries over to my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made wild animals serve him. All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until Babylon is defeated. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave. Suppose nations or kingdoms will not serve or surrender to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will punish those nations by wars, famines, and plagues, until I have put an end to them by Nebuchadnezzar's power, says Jehovah. Do not listen to prophets, mediums, and interpreters of dreams, fortunetellers, or sorcerers who tell you, 'You will never serve the king of Babylon.' They prophesy lies to you. They will cause you to be taken far from your lands. I will scatter you, and you will die. If a nation surrender to the king of Babylon and serve him I will let it stay in its own land. People will farm the land and live on it, says Jehovah.'

You learned him and were taught by him just as truth is in Jesus.

have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn.

Stop listening to instruction (discipline) (correction), my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

He who regards instruction is in the way of life. He who refuses reproof goes (mentally and morally) astray.

Understanding is a wellspring of life to the man who has it. But the instruction of fools is folly.

A wise son heeds his father's instruction (discipline). A scoffer does not listen to discipline (reproof).

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge. He that hates reproof is stupid.

Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety. Then say to the people of the land: 'The Lord Jehovah says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because their land will be stripped of its fullness on account of the violence of all who live in it. The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am Jehovah.'

Son of man, take a stick and write on it: For Judah and for the Israelites who are associated with it.' Then take another stick and write on it: 'The stick of Ephraim, for Joseph and for all the people of Israel associated with it.' Then join both sticks together so that they will be one in your hand. Your people will say to you: Tell us what you mean by this.' read more.
Then say to them: 'This is what the Lord Jehovah says: I will take Joseph's stick, which is in Ephraim's hand, and the tribes of Israel associated with it, and I will put them with Judah's stick. I will make them into one stick. They will be one in my hand.' When you hold the sticks in your hand, let the people see them. Tell them: 'The Lord Jehovah says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from everywhere and bring them to their own land. I will form them into one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel. One king will rule all of them. They will no longer be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.

Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow. You will, however, not mourn and you will not weep, and your tears will not come. Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet. Do not cover your mustache and do not eat the bread of men. So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded. read more.
The people said to me: Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us? Then I said to them: The word of Jehovah came to me, and He said: Speak to the house of Israel. Tell them Jehovah says: 'I am about to profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and your delight. Your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword. You will do as I have done. You will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men. 'Your turbans will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet. You will not mourn and you will not weep. You will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan to one another. 'So Ezekiel will be a sign to you. You will do according to all that he has done. Then you will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.'' As for you, O son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their pride, the desire of their eyes and their heart's delight, their sons and their daughters, that on that day he who escapes will come to you with information for your ears? On that day your mouth will be opened to him who escaped. You will speak and be mute no longer. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am Jehovah.

The people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. Joshua set up the twelve stones they took out of the Jordan River, in Gilgal. He spoke to the children of Israel: When your children will ask their fathers in time to come, what these stones mean? read more.
Then you will let your children know, saying: Israel came over this Jordan River on dry land. For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you, until you all crossed over. As Jehovah your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we crossed over. That all the people of the earth might know the hand of Jehovah is mighty: that you might reverence Jehovah your God forever.

Speak to the Israelites and tell them: For generations to come they must wear tassels on the corners of their clothes. Each tassel should have violet threads. When you look at the threads in the tassel, you will remember all Jehovah's commandments and obey them. Then you will not do whatever you want and go after whatever you see, as if you were chasing after prostitutes.

Son of man, pack your bags as if you were going into exile. Let the people see you leave in the daylight. March like a captive from your place to another place as they watch. Maybe they will understand, even though they are a rebellious people (house). Bring out your bags as if you were going into exile. Let them see this in the daylight. In the evening let them see you leave like a captive going into exile. Dig a hole through the wall of your house, as they watch, and leave through it. read more.
Let them see you put your bags on your shoulders and carry them out in the dark. Cover your face so that you won't see the land. I have made you a sign to warn the nation of Israel. I did what I was ordered to do. During the day I brought out bags as if I were going into exile. In the evening I dug a hole through the wall. I brought out my bags in the dark. I let the people see me as I carried my bags on my shoulders. The next morning Jehovah spoke his word to me, He said: Son of man, did the rebellious nation of Israel ask you what you were doing? Tell them: This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'This is the divine revelation about the prince from Jerusalem and about all the people of Israel who live there.' Tell them: 'I am your warning sign. What I have done will happen to you. You will go into exile and into captivity. The prince who is among you will put his bags on his shoulders in the dark and leave. People will dig holes in the wall to go through. The prince will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.' I will also spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he will not see it, though he will die there. I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops. I will draw out a sword after them. So they will know that I am Jehovah when I scatter them among the nations and spread them among the countries. I will spare a few of them from the sword, the famine and the pestilence that they may tell all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am Jehovah.

Jehovah says: Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests. Then go out to the valley of Ben-hinnom (Hinnom Valley), which is by the entrance of the potsherd gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you. Say: Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold I am about to bring adversity upon this place. The ears of everyone who hears of it will quiver with fear. read more.
This is because they have forsaken me. They have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods. These are gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the blameless (innocent).' They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal. This is not something I commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter my mind (heart) (conscience).' Therefore days are coming, declares Jehovah, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter. I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth. I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters. I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will cause them.' Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you. Say to them: 'Jehovah of Hosts says: Like this I will break this people and this city. It is just like one breaks a potter's vessel that cannot again be repaired. They will bury in Topheth because there is no other place for burial.' This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants,'declares Jehovah, 'I will make this city like Topheth.

Jehovah told me: Go and buy a linen belt. Wear it on your hips for a while, but do not put it in any water. So I bought a belt and put it on my hips. Then Jehovah said: read more.
Take off the linen belt. Go to the Euphrates River and hide the belt in a crack between some large rocks. And that is what I did, just as Jehovah commanded. Some time later Jehovah said: Go back and get the linen belt. I went back and dug the belt out of the hiding place, but the cloth had rotted, and the linen belt was ruined. It was good for nothing. Then Jehovah said: Jeremiah, I will use Babylon to destroy the pride of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. The people of Judah are evil and stubborn. They do not listen to me. They do whatever they want and even worship other gods. When I am finished with these people, they will be good for nothing, just like this linen belt. This belt is tight around your waist, and that is how tightly I held onto the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. I wanted them to be my people. I wanted to make them famous, so that other nations would praise and honor me, but they refused to obey me.

I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man lacking understanding. It was all grown over with thorns and nettles, and the wall of stone was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well. I looked on it, and received instruction: read more.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. Your poverty will come like a robber and your want like an armed man.

The word of Jehovah came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, He said: Son of man, write the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day. Speak a parable to the rebellious house. Say to them: The Lord Jehovah says, Put on the cooking pot, put it on and also pour water in it. read more.
Put in it the pieces, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with choice bones. Take the choicest of the flock. Also pile wood under the pot. Make it boil vigorously. Also boil its bones in it.' Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: 'Woe to the bloody city, To the cooking pot in which there is rust and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making a choice. Her blood is in her midst. She placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare rock, that it may not be covered.' The Lord Jehovah says: 'Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. Heap on the wood and kindle the fire. Boil the flesh well and mix in the spices and let the bones be burned. Then set it empty on its coals so that it may be hot and its copper may glow and its filthiness may be melted in it. Let its rust be consumed. She has made me tire with toil, yet her great rust has not gone from her. Let her rust be in the fire!' In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you, yet you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again until I have spent my anger on you. I, Jehovah, have spoken. It is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry! I will judge you according to your ways and according to your deeds.' This is a declaration of the Lord Jehovah.

At that time Jehovah spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him: Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet. He did this and went around stripped and barefoot. Jehovah said: Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,

Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the three hundred and ninety days you lie on your side. Weigh out eight ounces of food for each day and eat it at set times. You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day. read more.
You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you. Jehovah said: This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids when I scatter them to foreign countries. But I replied: No, O Lord Jehovah! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean. So God said: Very well. I will let you use cow dung instead. You can bake your bread on that. And he added: Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink. They will run out of bread and water. They will be in despair. They will waste away because of their sins.

So, son of man, groan with a breaking heart and with bitter crying while the people watch you. When they ask why you are groaning tell this: 'News has come that will discourage everyone. People's hands will hang limp, their hearts will lose courage, and their knees will become as weak as water. It is coming! It will surely take place!' Declares the Lord Jehovah.

Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for three hundred and ninety days you will bear the sin of the house of Israel. After you have finished this lie down again. This time lie on your right side, and bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you forty days, a day for each year. read more.
Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her. I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.

Son of man, take a clay tablet and put it in front of you. Draw the city of Jerusalem on it. Then lay siege to it. Erect siege works against it. Build a ramp up to it. Set up camps against it and put battering rams around it. Take an iron pan and place it as an iron wall between you and the city. Then turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

Moses said: This is what Jehovah has commanded: 'Let two quarts of it be kept throughout your generations. Then they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'

And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places.

He spoke boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him home and explained God's word more accurately.

In the third year of his reign he sent out the following officials to teach in the cities of Judah: Benhail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah.

Then Philip began at the same Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

He opened his mouth and taught them: