31 The ear that hears the rebukes of life
Will abide among the wise.

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(A)A fool despises his father’s instruction,
(B)But he who [a]receives correction is prudent.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:5 Lit. keeps

12 Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold
Is a wise rebuker to an obedient ear.

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(A)You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. (B)Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

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20 Listen to counsel and receive instruction,
That you may be wise (A)in your latter days.

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(A)Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you;
(B)Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser;
Teach a just man, (C)and he will increase in learning.

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20 He who walks with wise men will be wise,
But the companion of fools will be destroyed.

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23 Turn at my rebuke;
Surely (A)I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you.

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19 (A)They went out from us, but they were not of us; for (B)if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out (C)that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

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Incline your ear, and (A)come to Me.
Hear, and your soul shall live;
(B)And I will make an everlasting covenant with you—
The (C)sure mercies of David.

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