'Reproof' in the Bible
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof.
My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof:
And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.
Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Poverty and shame'shall be to him that refuseth correction; But he that regardeth reproof shall be honored.
A fool despiseth his father's correction; But he that regardeth reproof getteth prudence.
There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way; And he that hateth reproof shall die.
The ear that hearkeneth to the reproof of life Shall abide among the wise.
He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; But he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.
The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.
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