Verse 29

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;

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  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.
  • Isa 30:9-9 : 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them:
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.
  • John 3:20 : 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • Acts 7:51-54 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers, 53 Who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it. 54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.' 15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
  • Ps 50:16-17 : 16 But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth? 17 Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.