Proverbs 15:10

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.