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Job 28:28
And to mankind He said,‘ Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to turn away from evil is understanding.’ ”
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Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
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Ecclesiastes 12:13
The conclusion, when everything has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.
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Psalms 111:10-112:1
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; All those who follow His commandments have a good understanding; His praise endures forever.Praise the Lord! Blessed is a person who fears the Lord, Who greatly delights in His commandments.
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Proverbs 18:2
A fool does not delight in understanding, But in revealing his own mind.
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Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the Lord is the instruction for wisdom, And before honor comes humility.
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Proverbs 1:22
“ How long, you naive ones, will you love simplistic thinking? And how long will scoffers delight themselves in scoffing And fools hate knowledge?
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Proverbs 1:29-30
Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the Lord.They did not accept my advice, They disdainfully rejected every rebuke from me.
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Proverbs 5:12-13
And you say,“ How I hated instruction! And my heart disdainfully rejected rebuke!I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, Nor incline my ear to my instructors!
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Romans 1:28
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper,
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John 3:18-21
The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their deeds were evil.For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed in God.”
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Proverbs 15:5
A fool rejects his father’s discipline, But he who complies with rebuke is sensible.