Pro 1:22, 8:5, Isa 35:8, 1Cor 14:16, 23-24, Tit 3:3 | ESV | STEP | How long , O simple ones , will you love being simple ? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge ?

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 8:5

5 O ^dsimple ones, learn ^eprudence;
O ^ffools, learn sense.

Isaiah 35:8

8 ^gAnd a highway shall be there,
and it shall be called the Way of Holiness;
^hthe unclean shall not pass over it.
It shall belong to those who walk on the way;
even if they are fools, they shall not go astray. ^{▼▼Or if they are fools, they shall not wander in it}

1 Corinthians 14:16

16 Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider ^{▼▼Or of him that is without gifts} say ^k“Amen” to ^lyour thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?

1 Corinthians 14:23-24

23 If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, ^mwill they not say that you are out of your minds? 24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,

Titus 3:3

3 For ⁿwe ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.