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Proverbs 1:22
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Proverbs 1:22
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye loue simplicitie? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fooles hate knowledge?
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 1:22
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Without guile; sincere or harmless; in other contexts, lacking wisdom or understanding.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Persons or things considered individually or as members of a stated class.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Affection, goodwill, devoted regard, or charity; as a verb, to regard with such affection or goodwill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
simplicity
Sincerity, singleness, and freedom from deceit or duplicity; also plainness, as the context indicates.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons who mock, despise, or treat others or truth with contempt.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To affect with great pleasure; to please highly; to give or afford high satisfaction or joy. A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind; joy.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Treating with contempt, mockery, disdain, or derision.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons lacking wisdom or sound judgment, especially in moral or spiritual conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To feel strong dislike, aversion, or enmity toward; in comparisons, to love less.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Understanding or awareness gained by knowing; recognition; what is known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
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Open the full verse study20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
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Open the full verse study29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
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Open the full verse study12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
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Open the full verse study1BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
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Open the full verse study42Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
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Open the full verse study29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
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Open the full verse study13But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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Open the full verse study17And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
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Open the full verse study29Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
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Open the full verse study11When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
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Open the full verse study9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
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Open the full verse study3And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
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Open the full verse study28And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
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Open the full verse study7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
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Open the full verse study17Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
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Open the full verse study37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
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Open the full verse study27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
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Open the full verse study4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
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Open the full verse study7¶ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Open the full verse study6A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
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Open the full verse study12A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
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Open the full verse study34Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
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Open the full verse study7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
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Open the full verse study5O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
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Open the full verse study16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
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Open the full verse study4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
5Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
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Open the full verse study8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
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