Proverbs 15:12
A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.
BSB
ASV
A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise.
KJV
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
leads to
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
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John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
leads to
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.
