Bible Verses About Divine Instruction

He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

Understanding [is] a well-spring of life to him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly.

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

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

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

He [is in] the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

Whoever loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.

A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom: and before honor is humility.

A divine sentence [is] in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge.

Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge.

Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I looked upon [it], [and] received instruction.

And Joseph said to them, What deed [is] this that ye have done? knew ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring up for me whom I shall name to thee.

But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising early and teaching [them], yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment to the nations that [are] around thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken [it].

And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

While they see vanity to thee, while they divine a lie to thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.

Therefore night [shall be] to you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark to you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money; yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.

I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, however I punished them: but they rose early, [and] corrupted all their doings.

All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

According as his divine power hath given to us all things that [pertain] to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,