Proverbs 12:1 {2}
Good News Translation
Any who love knowledge want to be told when they are wrong. It is stupid to hate being corrected.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid.

Contemporary English Version
To accept correction is wise, to reject it is stupid.

New American Bible
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates reproof is stupid.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but he that trusteth in his own devices, doth wickedly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but he that trusteth in his own devices, doth wickedly.

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Proverbs 5:12,13 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters? . . .

Proverbs 9:7,8 Rebuke not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. . . .

Psalm 32:9 Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.

Psalm 92:6 The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

Isaiah 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

Context
Loving Discipline and Knowledge
1He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but he that trusteth in his own devices, doth wickedly.2Man shall not be strengthened by wickedness: and the root of the just shall not be moved.…
Cross References
Psalm 50:17
Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

Proverbs 5:12
And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?

Proverbs 8:36
Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.

Proverbs 11:31
He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof, is foolish.

Proverbs 12:2
Man shall not be strengthened by wickedness: and the root of the just shall not be moved.

Proverbs 30:2
I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.

Proverbs 11:31
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