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Proverbs 1:22
“ How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? (niv)
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Proverbs 6:23
For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life, (niv)
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Isaiah 27:11
When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor. (niv)
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Acts 7:51-54
“ You stiff- necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him—you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.”When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. (niv)
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Job 21:14-15
Yet they say to God,‘ Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’ (niv)
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Luke 10:42
but few things are needed— or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” (niv)
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John 3:20
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. (niv)
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Hebrews 11:25
He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. (niv)
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Proverbs 5:12
You will say,“ How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction! (niv)
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Isaiah 30:9-12
For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.They say to the seers,“ See no more visions!” and to the prophets,“ Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says:“ Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit, (niv)
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Psalms 50:16-17
But to the wicked person, God says:“ What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you. (niv)