Proverbs 1:22

22“How long, O asimple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will bscoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools chate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:29-30

29Because they dhated knowledge
and edid not choose the fear of the Lord,
30 fwould have none of my counsel
and gdespised all my reproof,

Proverbs 5:12-13

12and you say, hHow I hated discipline,
and my heart idespised reproof!
13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.

Proverbs 15:5

5 jA fool kdespises his father’s instruction,
but lwhoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 18:2

2A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
but only min expressing his opinion.

John 3:18-21

18 nWhoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not obelieved in the name of the only Son of God. 19 pAnd this is the judgment: qthe light has come into the world, and rpeople loved the darkness rather than the light because stheir works were evil. 20 tFor everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, ulest his works should be exposed. 21But whoever vdoes what is true wcomes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

Romans 1:28

28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, xGod gave them up to ya debased mind to do zwhat ought not to be done.
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