Proverbs 15:10
Correction is grievous unto him that forsakes the way: and he that hates reproof shall die.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
In Context
11Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Cross References
1 Kings 18:17And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Are you he that troubles Israel?
1 Kings 22:8And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
Psalms 50:17Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.
Proverbs 5:12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 12:1Whoso loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 23:35They have stricken me, shall you say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:10
9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord : but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. This is a reason of what was said in the foregoing verse. 1. The sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to God, not for want of some nice points of ceremony, but because their way, the whole course and tenour of their conversation, is wicked, and consequently an abomination to him. Sacrifices for sin were not accepted of those that resolved to go on in sin, and were to the highest degree abominable… Read the whole commentary →