Proverbs 9:8

Don't rebuke a scoffer, who will hate you, but reprove a wise man, who will love you. The wise welcome correction; the scornful resent it.

Cross-references · 17

• Prov 13:18Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
• Ps 141:5Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
• Prov 23:9Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
• Prov 15:12A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
• Matt 7:6“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
• Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
• Prov 28:23One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.
• Lev 19:17“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
• Matt 15:14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
• Heb 6:4–8For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
• 2 Pet 3:15–16Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
• 2 Sam 12:7–14Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
• Num 14:6–10Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
• 1 Kgs 1:23They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!” When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
• 1 Kgs 1:32King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king.
• 1 Kgs 22:8The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
• Gal 2:11–14But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

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