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Proverbs 15:12
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Proverbs 15:12
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12 Scoffers do not like to be rebuked;
they will not go to the wise.(A)
Proverbs 15:12
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Proverbs 15:12
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12 Mockers resent correction,(A)
so they avoid the wise.
Amos 5:10
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Amos 5:10
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10 They hate the one who reproves in the gate,
and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.(A)
Amos 5:10
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Amos 5:10
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Job 21:14
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Job 21:14
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14 They say to God, ‘Leave us alone!
We do not desire to know your ways.(A)
Job 21:14
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Job 21:14
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Proverbs 9:7-8
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Proverbs 9:7-8
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General Maxims
7 Whoever corrects a scoffer wins abuse;
whoever rebukes the wicked gets hurt.(A)
8 Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you;
rebuke the wise, and he will love you.(B)
Proverbs 9:7-8
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Proverbs 9:7-8
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2 Timothy 4:3
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2 Timothy 4:3
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3 For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires(A)
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2 Timothy 4:3
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2 Timothy 4:3
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3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.(A) Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.(B)
John 7:7
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John 7:7
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7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.(A)
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John 7:7
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John 7:7
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John 3:18-21
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John 3:18-21
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18 Those who believe in him are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.(A) 19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.(B) 20 For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.(C) 21 But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”[a](D)
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John 3:18-21
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John 3:18-21
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18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned,(A) but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.(B) 19 This is the verdict: Light(C) has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.(D) 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.(E) 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
Proverbs 15:10
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Proverbs 15:10
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10 There is severe discipline for one who forsakes the way;
one who hates a rebuke will die.(A)
Proverbs 15:10
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Proverbs 15:10
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10 Stern discipline awaits anyone who leaves the path;
the one who hates correction will die.(A)
2 Chronicles 18:7
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2 Chronicles 18:7
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7 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one other by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies anything favorable about me but only disaster.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let the king not say such a thing.”(A)
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2 Chronicles 18:7
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2 Chronicles 18:7
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7 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”
“The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.
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