Proverbs 12:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Proverbs 12:1 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:10
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
Proverbs 9:7-8
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. …
Psalms 119:97-100
MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. …
Proverbs 18:1
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
Proverbs 5:12-13
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; …

Topics

Courage Expostulation Graces Ignorance Knowledge Learning Prudence Reproof

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1)

We are here taught to try whether we have grace or no by enquiring how we stand affected to the means of grace. 1. Those that have grace and love it will delight in all the instructions that are given them by way of counsel; admonition, or reproof, by the word or providence of God; they will value a good education, and think it not a hardship, but a happiness, to be under a strict and prudent disc…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Pr 12:1-28. 1. loveth knowledge--as the fruit of instruction or training (Pr 1:2). hateth reproof--(Pr 10:17). brutish--stupid, regardless of his own welfare (Psa 49:10; 73:22).