Proverbs 1:29

Their ruin comes because they hated knowledge and refused the fear of Yahweh. It matters because it names the root cause: rejecting reverence for God.

Cross-references · 11

• Prov 6:23For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
• Job 21:14–15They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
• Prov 1:22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
• Heb 11:25choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
• Isa 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
• Ps 50:16–17But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
• Acts 7:51–54“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
• John 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
• Prov 5:12and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
• Luke 10:42but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
• Isa 30:9–12For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

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