Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
2 A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
- KJV
- Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
- WEB
- Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
- ASV
- Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
- DARBY
- Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
- BLB
- The one loving discipline is loving knowledge, and the one hating correction [is] stupid.
- ÅB
- Den som elsker tukt, elsker kunnskap; men den som hater refselse, er dum.
- OTB
- Den som elsker tukt, elsker kunnskap, men den som forakter tilrettevisning, er dum.
- B1930
- Den som elsker tukt, elsker kunnskap; men den som hater refselse, er dum.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 15:10
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
Read in contextProverbs 9:7–8
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Read in contextPsalms 119:97–100
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Read in contextProverbs 5:12–13
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Read in contextProverbs 18:1
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
Read in contextPsalms 32:9
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Read in contextProverbs 8:17
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Read in contextPsalms 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
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