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Proverbs 1:25

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

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  • WEB World English Bible

    but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

  • KJV King James Version

    But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof;

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Cross-references (7)

Passages linked to Proverbs 1:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 81:11 But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
  • Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
  • Psalms 107:11 because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
  • Proverbs 1:30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
  • Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
  • 2 Chronicles 36:16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
  • Proverbs 5:12 and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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Explain this verse (6 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 1:25 But ye have set at nought all…

Pro 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Ver. 25. But ye have set at naught.] As those recusant {a} guests in the Gospel that pretended they therefore came not, because they had bought farms and oxen; but indeed it was because their farms and oxen had bought them. They had either so much to do, or so little to do, that they could not make use of so fair an offer, so sweet advice and advantage.

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And would none of my reproof.] Ruinam praecedunt stillicidia. It is a sure presage and desert of ruin, when men will not be ruled. {Pro 29:1} The cypress, the more it is watered, the more it is withered. The tree that is not for fruit, is for the fire. The earth that beareth thorns and briars only is rejected. {Heb 6:8}

{a} One who refuses to submit to some authority, comply with some regulation or request, etc.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Set at nought, or despised, or made void; resisted…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But ye have set at nought all my counsel,....…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain set at naught--rejected as of no value.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. Set at naught — Or, let go, did…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Ye have set at nought; rather, rejected (Umbreit, Ewald,…

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