Proverbs 15:32 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³²He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

Proverbs 15:32 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Proverbs 1:24-33
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; …
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Isaiah 1:5
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Ambition Arrogance Conceit Courage Deafness Expostulation Godlessness

Commentary

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

(vv. 32)

See here, 1. The folly of those that will not be taught, that refuse instruction, that will not heed it, but turn their backs upon it, or will not hear it, but turn their hearts against it. They refuse correction (margin); they will not take it, no, not from God himself, but kick against the pricks. Those that do so despise their own souls; they show that they have a low and mean opinion of them,…

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

(vv. 32)

31-32. (Compare Pr 10:17). reproof of life--which leads to life. abideth ... wise--is numbered among them.