How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;