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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 thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
 11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: (Prov. 2:10‑11)
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Prov. 8:17,32• 17I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
 32Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. (Prov. 8:17,32)
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Prov. 18:1• 1Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. (Prov. 18:1)
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Psa. 119:27,97‑100• 27Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
 97MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
 98Thou through thy commandments hast made 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 ancients, because I keep thy precepts. (Psa. 119:27,97‑100)
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2 Thess. 2:10• 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (2 Thess. 2:10)
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Prov. 5:12‑13• 12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
 13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! (Prov. 5:12‑13)
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Prov. 9:7‑8• 7He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
 8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. (Prov. 9:7‑8)
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Psa. 32:9• 9Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. (Psa. 32:9)
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Psa. 92:6• 6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. (Psa. 92:6)
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Isa. 1:3• 3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. (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.