Proverbs 5:12-14

Warning Against Adultery

¹² and you say, _l "How I hated discipline,
and my heart _m despised reproof!
¹³ I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
¹⁴ _n I am at the brink of utter ruin
in the assembled congregation."

1. Cross References
   Proverbs 1:22
   How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
   Proverbs 1:29
   Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
   Proverbs 12:1
   Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
   
2. Cross References
   Proverbs 1:25
   Because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof.
   Psalms 107:11
   For they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
   
3. Cross References
   Psalms 94:17
   If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.