Proverbs 5:12

Then you will lament how you hated instruction and despised correction. Sin's regret includes grief over rejected wisdom.

Cross-references · 20

• Prov 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
• Prov 15:5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
• Prov 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
• Prov 1:22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
• Jer 44:4Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
• Ps 50:17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
• Exod 2:13–14The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
• Zech 1:4–6Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
• John 3:19–20And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
• Prov 13:18Poverty and shame come to him who ignores discipline, but whoever heeds correction is honored.
• 2 Chr 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
• 2 Chr 24:20–22Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
• 2 Chr 33:10–11And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.
• Zech 7:11–14But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
• Ps 73:22I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
• 2 Chr 25:16While he was still speaking, the king asked, “Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice.”
• Gen 19:9“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
• Prov 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
• Prov 1:29–30For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

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