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Proverbs 12

Prov. 12:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whoso loveth
'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
instruction
muwcar (Hebrew #4148)
properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint
KJV usage: bond, chastening ((-eth)), chastisement, check, correction, discipline, doctrine, instruction, rebuke.
Pronounce: moo-sawr'
Origin: from 3256
loveth
'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
knowledge
da`ath (Hebrew #1847)
knowledge
KJV usage: cunning, (ig-)norantly, know(-ledge), (un-)awares (wittingly).
Pronounce: dah'-ath
Origin: from 3045
: but he that hateth
sane' (Hebrew #8130)
to hate (personally)
KJV usage: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-nay'
Origin: a primitive root
reproof
towkechah (Hebrew #8433)
from 3198; chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)
KJV usage: argument, X chastened, correction, reasoning, rebuke, reproof, X be (often) reproved.
Pronounce: to-kay-khaw'
Origin: and towkachath {to-kakh'-ath}
is brutish
ba`ar (Hebrew #1198)
properly, foot (as consumed); i.e. (by exten.) of cattle brutishness; (concretely) stupid
KJV usage: brutish (person), foolish.
Pronounce: bah'-ar
Origin: from 1197
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 2:10‑11• 10When wisdom entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,
 11discretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee: (Prov. 2:10‑11)
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Prov. 8:17,32• 17I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.
 32And now, sons, hearken unto me, and blessed are they that keep my ways: (Prov. 8:17,32)
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Prov. 18:1• 1He that separateth himself seeketh his pleasure, he is vehement against all sound wisdom. (Prov. 18:1)
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Psa. 119:27,97‑100• 27Make me to understand the way of thy precepts, and I will meditate upon thy wondrous works.
 97MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
 98Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.
 99I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation.
 100I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts. (Psa. 119:27,97‑100)
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2 Thess. 2:10• 10and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved. (2 Thess. 2:10)
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Prov. 5:12‑13• 12and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
 13and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me; (Prov. 5:12‑13)
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Prov. 9:7‑8• 7He that instructeth a scorner getteth to himself shame; and he that reproveth a wicked man getteth to himself a blot.
 8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise man, and he will love thee. (Prov. 9:7‑8)
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Psa. 32:9• 9Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee. (Psa. 32:9)
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Psa. 92:6• 6A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it. (Psa. 92:6)
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Isa. 1:3• 3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence. (Isa. 1:3)
• The man who loves instruction for its own sake values true knowledge, let it come through what channel it may. What he desires is the truth, not the ability to display his acquirements. (“Proverbs Twelve” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.