¹⁷ He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

⁵ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

⁶ And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

⁷ And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

⁸ For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

¹⁰ Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

¹¹ For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

²⁸ But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

¹⁰ Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

29 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

¹² And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

²⁴ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

²⁵ And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

²⁶ And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

²⁷ And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

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