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Proverbs 1:29

For gthat they hated knowledge, and did not hchoose the fear of the LORD:

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

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Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

Job 21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Psalms 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

Acts 13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

1 Thessalonians 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

1 Thessalonians 2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Proverbs 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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Psalms 119:173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

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to wit, the practical knowledge of God, and of their duty to him, as it is explained in the following clause.

not heartily approve of it and love it, but only made some show of it.