Proverbs 1:22, 23
"How long, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge? . . .

Proverbs 8:4, 5
"To you, O men, I call out, and my cry is to the sons of men. . . .

Proverbs 9:4-6
"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks judgment she says: . . .

Isaiah 55:1-3
"Come, all of you who thirst, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk, without money and without cost! . . .

Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: "It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

2 Corinthians 6:1
As God's fellow workers, we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain.

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Proverbs 14:6
A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.

Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.

Proverbs 21:25, 26
The craving of the sluggard will kill him because his hands refuse to work. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and their children forever.

Psalm 81:11-13
But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me. . . .

Hosea 4:11
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

John 3:20
Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

Acts 28:26, 27
Go to this people and say, "You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving." . . .