A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

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

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.