Proverbs 1:23
Be converted by my correction. Lo, I will offer my spirit to you, and I will reveal my words to you.
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In Context
24For I called, and you refused. I extended my hand, and there was no one who watched.
Cross References
Psalms 145:1Alleluia. Of Haggai and Zachariah.
Proverbs 1:30they would not consent to my counsel, but they detracted from all of my corrections.
Proverbs 10:17The way of life is for those who observe discipline. But whoever abandons correction wanders astray.
Proverbs 29:1The man who, with a stiff neck, treats the one who corrects him with contempt will be suddenly overwhelmed to his own destruction, and reason shall not follow him.
Isaiah 45:8Send down dew from above, O heavens, and let the clouds rain down upon the just! Let the earth open and spring forth a savior! And let justice rise up at once! I, the Lord, have created him.
Isaiah 55:6Seek the Lord, while he is able to be found. Call upon him, while he is near.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:21-33
Wisdom's Exhortations; Doom of Obdurate Sinners. 20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have… Read the whole commentary →