Proverbs 10:17

Heeding correction is the way of life, but rejecting reproof leads others astray. Receiving discipline blesses you and those who follow you.

Cross-references · 19

• 2 Pet 1:5–11And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
• Prov 15:10Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
• Prov 5:12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
• Prov 6:23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
• Luke 11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
• Prov 3:18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
• Prov 12:1Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
• Prov 4:13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
• Matt 7:24–27Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
• Prov 3:1–2My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
• Prov 29:1He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
• Prov 1:25–26But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
• Prov 4:4He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
• Eccl 5:6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
• Heb 12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
• Prov 1:30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
• Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
• 2 Chr 25:16And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
• Prov 22:17–19Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

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