Proverbs 13:18
King James Version (KJV)
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Poverty and shame [shall be to] him that refuseth correction; But he that regardeth reproof shall be honored.
World English Bible (WEB)
Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
Proverbs 13:18 Cross References
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
