Contrast of the Upright and the Wicked

12 One who loves [a]discipline loves knowledge,
But one who hates rebuke is stupid.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 12:1 Or instruction

12 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
    but whoever hates correction is stupid.(A)

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It is for discipline that you endure; (A)God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, (B)of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

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Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.(A) For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline(B)—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

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71 It is (A)good for me that I was afflicted,
So that I may learn Your statutes.

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71 It was good for me to be afflicted(A)
    so that I might learn your decrees.

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