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Proverbs 1:22
“ How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
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Proverbs 6:23
For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,
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Isaiah 27:11
When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
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Acts 7:51-54
“ You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it.”When they heard these things, they became furious and ground their teeth at him.
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Job 21:14-15
So they say to God,‘ Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
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Luke 10:42
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.”
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John 3:20
For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
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Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to be ill- treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.
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Proverbs 5:12
And you will say,“ How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!
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Isaiah 30:9-12
For these are rebellious people– they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s law.They say to the visionaries,“ See no more visions!” and to the seers,“ Don’t relate messages to us about what is right! Tell us nice things, relate deceptive messages.Turn aside from the way, stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says:“ You have rejected this message; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, and rely on that kind of behavior.
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Psalms 50:16-17
God says this to the evildoer:“ How can you declare my commands, and talk about my covenant?For you hate instruction and reject my words.
