Pro 5:9-14, 12:1, 13:13, 15:5, 31-32, 19:6, Jer 5:3-9, Heb 12:25 | ESV | STEP | lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless ,

Proverbs 5:9-14

9 lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless,
10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
and your ^alabors go to the house of a foreigner,
11 and at the end of your life you ^bgroan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, ^c“How I hated discipline,
and my heart ^ddespised reproof!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 ^eI am at the brink of utter ruin
in the assembled congregation.”

Proverbs 12:1

1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
but he who ^fhates reproof is ^gstupid.

Proverbs 13:13

13 Whoever ^hdespises ⁱthe word brings destruction on himself,
but he who reveres the commandment will be ^jrewarded.

Proverbs 15:5

5 ^kA fool ^ldespises his father’s instruction,
but ^mwhoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 15:31-32

31 ⁿThe ear that listens to ^olife-giving reproof
will dwell among the wise.
32 Whoever ^pignores instruction ^qdespises himself,
but he who listens to reproof ^rgains intelligence.

Proverbs 19:6

6 Many seek the favor of a generous man, ^{▼▼Or of a noble}
and everyone is a friend to a man who gives ^tgifts.

Jeremiah 5:3-9

3 O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
^uYou have struck them down,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
^vThey have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to repent.
4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense;
^wfor they do not know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
5 I will go to the great
and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.”
^xBut they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.
6 Therefore ^ya lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a ^zwolf from the desert shall devastate them.
^aaA leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their ^abapostasies are great.
7 ^ac“How can I pardon you?
Your children have forsaken me
^adand have sworn by those who are no gods.
^aeWhen I fed them to the full,
^afthey committed adultery
^agand trooped to the houses of whores.
8 They were well-fed, lusty stallions,
^aheach neighing ^aifor his neighbor’s wife.
9 ^ajShall I not punish them for these things?

declares the Lord;
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?

Hebrews 12:25

25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For ^akif they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.