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Proverbs 13:18
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Proverbs 13:18
18Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
18Pouerty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproofe, shall be honoured.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 13:18
A state of being poor: want, indigence, or scarcity of material means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A painful sense of guilt, disgrace, or dishonor; as a verb, to make ashamed or bring disgrace upon.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
instruction
Teaching, correction, discipline, or precepts that impart wisdom and direct conduct.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Correction or rebuke for a fault; censure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study5A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
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Open the full verse study31The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
32He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
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Open the full verse study1WHOSO loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
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Open the full verse study13Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
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Open the full verse study12As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
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Open the full verse study6Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
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Open the full verse study9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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Open the full verse study9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
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Open the full verse study25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
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Open the full verse study3O 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.
4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.
5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
7¶ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
8They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
9Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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Open the full verse study5Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
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