Bible Dictionary: Fools: Despise Instruction

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father's instruction: but he that regards reproof is prudent.
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Library

A Young Man's Best Counsellor
... the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.8. My son, hear ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/a young mans best counsellor.htm

Christ's Prophetic Office
... Fools despise instruction.' Proverbs 1:1. They rage at the word, as if a patient
should rage at the physician when he brings him a cordial; thus backward are ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/3 christs prophetic office.htm

Letter ii. --For 330. Easter-Day xxiv Pharmuthi; xiii Kal. Mai ...
... proverbs, saying, Hear, my children, the instruction of a ... Lord, in Thy city Thou
wilt despise their image ... being changed into the likeness of fools, they fell ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/letter ii for 330 easter-day xxiv.htm

The Broken Fence
... of the ways, but the ways themselves that they despise. ... is all excitement and has
little instruction in it ... whether the martyrs were not great fools for laying ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/the broken fence.htm

Second Sunday Before Lent
... the false preachers often act as fools, nor can ... and create us lords, we soon forget,
even despise. ... more unto preachers of lies, whose instruction redounds to ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol ii/second sunday before lent.htm

The Red Lamp.
... well to call those who urge you to despise the warnings ... There are plenty of fools
to tell you that. ... ARE CONSUMED, AND SAY, 'HOW HAVE I HATED INSTRUCTION AND MY ...
//christianbookshelf.org/champness/broken bread/xx the red lamp.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, Luke xii. 15, "And He Said unto Them ...
... let us hear Him who at once gives judgment and instruction. ... read, are not they who
hear and do not, fools? ... Let it then despise these goods, and be herself good ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon lvii on the words.htm

1 Cor. Iii. 18, 19
... and lowliness, of exaltation, and to despise glory is ... That he might most exceedingly
disparage the heathen instruction. ... Because having by it become fools, by it ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily x 1 cor iii.htm

How to Make Use of Christ as the Truth, when Error Prevaileth, and ...
... It is not good to despise such a sly and ... hear the voice of conscience within, nor
any instruction from without ... themselves to be wise, they became fools," ver.21 ...
/.../brown/christ the way the truth and the life/chapter xvi how to make.htm

Of the Necessity of the Wager
... they have made great efforts for their instruction when they ... religion which they
despise, not to despise them even ... We are fools to depend upon the society of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pascal/pensees/section iii of the necessity.htm