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 correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
• Prov 15:5A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
• Prov 1:25but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;
• Prov 1:7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
• Prov 1:22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
• Jer 44:4However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”
• Ps 50:17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
• Exod 2:13–14He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
• Zech 1:4–6Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
• John 3:19–20This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
• Prov 13:18Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
• 2 Chr 36:16but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
• 2 Chr 24:20–22The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’”
• 2 Chr 33:10–11Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.
• Zech 7:11–14But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
• Ps 73:22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
• 2 Chr 25:16As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”
• Gen 19:9They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.
• Prov 6:23For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
• Prov 1:29–30because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

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