Proverbs 1:7

7 aThe fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Jeremiah 2:30

30In vain have I bstruck your children;
they took no correction;
cyour own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 5:3

3O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
dYou have struck them down,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
eThey have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to repent.

Jeremiah 7:28

28And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; ftruth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.

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