Bible Verses About Instruction

Thou hast troden downe all them that depart from thy statutes: for their deceit is vaine.

Thou hast taken away all ye wicked of the earth like drosse: therefore I loue thy testimonies.

My flesh trembleth for feare of thee, and I am afraide of thy iudgements.

AIN. I haue executed iudgement and iustice: leaue me not to mine oppressours.

Answere for thy seruant in that, which is good, and let not the proude oppresse me.

Mine eyes haue failed in waiting for thy saluation, and for thy iust promise.

Deale with thy seruant according to thy mercie, and teache me thy statutes.

I am thy seruant: graunt mee therefore vnderstanding, that I may knowe thy testimonies.

The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,

To knowe wisdome, and instruction, to vnderstand ye wordes of knowledge,

To receiue instruction to do wisely, by iustice and iudgement and equitie,

To giue vnto the simple, sharpenesse of wit, and to the childe knowledge and discretion.

A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,

To vnderstand a parable, and the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.

Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.

She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,

O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles hate knowledge?

(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)

Because I haue called, and ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, and none woulde regarde.

But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.

I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.

Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon you,

Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,

Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.