Proverbs 15:12
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12 (A)A scoffer does not love one who corrects him,
Nor will he go to the wise.
Amos 5:10
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2 Timothy 4:3
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3 (A)For the time will come when they will not endure (B)sound doctrine, (C)but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
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John 7:7
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7 (A)The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me (B)because I testify of it that its works are evil.
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John 3:18-21
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18 (A)“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, (B)that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For (C)everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been (D)done in God.”
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Proverbs 15:10
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Proverbs 9:7-8
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7 “He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself,
And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself.
8 (A)Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you;
(B)Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
Job 21:14
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14 (A)Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
2 Chronicles 18:7
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7 So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord; but I hate him, because he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla.”
And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say such things!”
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