Bible Verses About Spiritual 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.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things.

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.

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.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

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].

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know [it]: the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the great hatred.

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.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, [even] as to babes in Christ.

And all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.)

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

However, that [was] not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual, restore such one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.