Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

The fear of the LORD {is} the beginning of knowledge: {but} fools despise wisdom and instruction. {the beginning: or, the principal part}

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. {revolt...: Heb. increase revolt}

O 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.

The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

Wherefore {is there} a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing {he hath} no heart {to it}?

Folly {is} joy to {him that is} destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly. {destitute...: Heb. void of heart}

And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son {is} stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; {he is} a glutton, and a drunkard.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and {that}, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

He, that being often reproved hardeneth {his} neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. {He...: Heb. A man of reproofs}

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble {you}, and thereby many be defiled; {fail...; or, fall from}

In thy filthiness {is} lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye {this} great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain; {out...: Heb. out of the midst of Judah}

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth {it} not.

Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, {that he should do} wickedness; and {from} the Almighty, {that he should commit} iniquity. {men...: Heb. men of heart}

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

See 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:

He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; {but} he that despiseth his ways shall die.