Proverbs 5:12

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: