Proverbs 15:31

⁵A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

¹²As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

³You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

²⁰Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

⁸Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you. ⁹Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

³Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

²⁰One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

²³Turn at my reproof. Behold, ^[+] I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

¹⁹They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.