He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Listen to instruction and be wise; do not ignore it.
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused
Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflict
The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.
For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard
A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disc
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
Folly is joy to one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path.
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and de
Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness.