'Teaching' in the Bible

The teaching of the wise man is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.

Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.

A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.

There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.

The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.

He who will not be controlled by training has no respect for his soul, but he who gives ear to teaching will get wisdom.

The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.

Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

Pay attention and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my teaching,

As a result, your trust will be in the LORD, that's why I'm teaching you today, even you.

Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.

I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.

The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.

She speaks wisely, teaching with gracious love.

"Listen to what the LORD says, you rulers of Sodom, and pay attention to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Therefore, as the tongue of fire consumes the stubble [from straw]And the dry grass collapses into the flame,So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away like fine dust;Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hostsAnd despised and discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.

"Bind up the testimony, and seal up the teaching among my disciples.

[Direct those people] to the law and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is because they have no dawn.

The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.

He who said to them, “This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary,”And, “This is the resting place,” yet they would not listen.

And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.

For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

He will not grow faint, and he will not be broken until he has established justice in the earth. And [the] coastlands wait for his teaching.

Yahweh was willing for the sake of his righteousness; he showed [his] teaching to be great and proved [it] to be glorious.

Who gave up Jacob [the kingdom of Judah] for spoil, and [the kingdom of] Israel to the plunderers?Was it not the Lord, He against whom we [of Judah] have sinned,And in whose ways they [of Israel] were unwilling to walk,And whose law and teaching they did not obey?

Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, Stand up, I pray thee, and save thee, Let the charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months, From those things that come on thee!

Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, 'I am Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.

The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:

"Listen attentively to me, my people, and my nation, listen to me! For a teaching will go out from me, and I will cause my justice to rest for a light to [the] peoples.

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, people [who have] my teaching in their heart; you must not fear [the] reproach of men, or be terrified because of their abuse.

Your priests did not ask, 'Where is the Lord?' Those responsible for teaching my law did not really know me. Your rulers rebelled against me. Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal. They all worshiped idols that could not help them.

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.

Hear, O earth, look, I [am] about to bring disaster to this people, the fruit of their plans, because they have not listened attentively to my words, and my teaching, they have rejected it also.

And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.

But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.

But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.

But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.

And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.

But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Do not give ear to the words which the prophets say to you: they give you teaching of no value: it is from themselves that their vision comes, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord.

Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:

She raised one cub in particular, teaching that fierce lion to become a hunter-prowler to eat human beings.

And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done.

So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.

lads in whom there is no blemish, and of good appearance, and skilful in all wisdom, and possessing knowledge, and teaching thought, and who have ability to stand in the palace of the king, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.

And teaching me and talking to me he said, O Daniel, I have come now to give you wisdom.

And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.

So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.

"But you priests turned aside from the way, and by your teaching you caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.