Proverbs 1:29
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Proverbs 1:22
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22 “How long, you [a]simple ones, will you love [b]simplicity?
For scorners delight in their scorning,
And fools hate knowledge.
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- Proverbs 1:22 naive
- Proverbs 1:22 naivete
Job 21:14-15
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14 (A)Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
15 (B)Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And (C)what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
Hebrews 11:25
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25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the [a]passing pleasures of sin,
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- Hebrews 11:25 temporary
Proverbs 6:23
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23 (A)For the commandment is a lamp,
And the law a light;
Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Isaiah 27:11
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11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For (A)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will (B)not have mercy on them,
And (C)He who formed them will show them no favor.
Acts 7:51-54
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Israel Resists the Holy Spirit
51 “You (A)stiff-necked[a] and (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 (C)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of (D)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, 53 (E)who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”
Stephen the Martyr
54 (F)When they heard these things they were [b]cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
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John 3:20
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20 For (A)everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
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Luke 10:42
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42 But (A)one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
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Isaiah 30:9-12
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9 That (A)this is a rebellious people,
Lying children,
Children who will not hear the law of the Lord;
10 (B)Who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;
(C)Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
11 Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:
“Because you (D)despise this word,
And trust in oppression and perversity,
And rely on them,
Proverbs 5:12
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12 And say:
“How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!
Psalm 50:16-17
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16 But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to declare My statutes,
Or take My covenant in your mouth,
17 (A)Seeing you hate instruction
And cast My words behind you?
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