1 Kings 21:20
20Ahab said to Elijah, a“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because byou have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.1 Kings 22:8
8And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”Proverbs 9:7-8
7 Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse,and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
8 cDo not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;
dreprove a wise man, and he will love you.
Proverbs 15:12
12 eA scoffer fdoes not like to be reproved;he will not go to the wise.
Isaiah 29:21
21who by a word make a man out to be an offender,and glay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
and with an empty plea hturn aside him who is in the right.
Jeremiah 20:8
8For whenever I speak, I cry out,I shout, i“Violence and destruction!”
For jthe word of the Lord has become for me
ka reproach and lderision all day long.
John 3:19
19 mAnd this is the judgment: nthe light has come into the world, and opeople loved the darkness rather than the light because ptheir works were evil.
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