18 Bible Verses about Instruction

Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law. And the people [stood] in their place.

And this man began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside, and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.

Also in the third year of his reign he sent his rulers, even Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

And Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Scripture, he preached the good-news to him--the man Jesus.

And having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying,

And tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, Teacher, what should we do?

Then having sent the multitudes away, Jesus came into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.

And when he became alone, those around him, with the twelve, asked him the parable.

And when he entered into a house from the crowd, his disciples questioned him about the parable.

And they questioned him, saying, The scholars say that Elijah must first come.

So when they ate breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me more than these things? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but make them known to thy sons and thy son's sons--

And thou shall teach them diligently to thy sons, and shall talk of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up.

And ye shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God.

And thou shall teach them diligently to thy sons, and shall talk of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up.

And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

and that ye may teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which LORD has spoken to them by Moses.

that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons,

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun. But they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee?

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who were among them.

Come, ye children, hearken to me. I will teach you the fear of LORD.

And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.

And that from a babe thou have known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is brutish.

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened [by] the masters of assemblies. They have been given from one shepherd.

I went by the field of the sluggard, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding. And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns. The face of it was covered with nettles, and the stone wall of it was broken down. Then I beheld, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: read more.
[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. read more.
I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten for me great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yea, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a striving after wind. For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Because of this I say to you, be not anxious about your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, nor yet for your body, what ye may wear. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing? Look to the birds of the sky, because they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not more valuable then they? And which man of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his life span? read more.
And why are ye anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, nor do they spin, yet I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these. And if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into an oven, will he not much more you, O ye of little faith?

A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.

The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth, since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee?

For his God instructs him aright, [and] teaches him.

O God, thou have taught me from my youth, and I have declared thy wondrous works until now.

For LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

And for you, the anointing that ye received from him abides in you, and ye have no need that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you about all things, and is TRUE and is no lie, and just as it taught you, ye will a

But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.

Thou also gave thy good Spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold thy manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land where ye go in to possess it.

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

Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me. For blessed are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.

It is written in the prophets, And they will all be taught of God. Every man who hears from the Father, and having learned, comes to me.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.

He who corrects a scoffer gets himself reviling. And he who reproves a wicked man [gets] himself a bruise. Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee. Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee. Give opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. read more.
The fear of LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.

When a scoffer is punished, a simple man is made wise, and when a wise man is instructed, he receives knowledge.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who hearkens to reproof gets understanding.

Poverty and shame [are to] him who refuses correction, but he who regards reproof shall be honored.

Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness, so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

Thus says LORD to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck. And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the sons of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. And give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus ye shall say to your masters: read more.
I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I give it to whom it seems right to me. And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. And the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman. And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish, says LORD, But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon. For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish. But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] I will let remain in their own land, says LORD, and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

if indeed ye heard him, and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus,

And they have turned the back to me, and not the face. And though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

To err from the words of knowledge, cease, my son, to hear instruction.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof errs.

Understanding is a well-spring of life to him who has it, but the correction of fools is folly.

A wise son [hears] his father's instruction, but a scoffer listens not to rebuke.

He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is brutish.

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness. And say to the people of the land, Thus says lord LORD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate of And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the sons of Israel his companions. Then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his And join them one to another into one stick for thyself, that they may become one in thy hand. And when the sons of thy people shall speak to thee, saying, Will thou not show us what thou mean by these? read more.
say to them, Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions, and I will put them with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one sti And the sticks on which thou write shall be in thy hand before their eyes. And say to them, Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land. And I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all. And they shall no more be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

Son of man, behold, I take the desire of thine eyes away from thee with a stroke. Yet thou shall neither mourn nor weep. Neither shall thy tears run down. Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind thy headdress upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet. And do not cover thy lips, and do not eat the bread of men. So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And I did in the morning as I was commanded. read more.
And the people said to me, Will thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou do so? Then I said to them, The word of LORD came to me, saying, Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul has compassion. And your sons and your daughters whom ye have left b And ye shall do as I have done. Ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. And your turbans shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet. Ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another. Thus Ezekiel shall be to you a sign, according to all that he has done ye shall do. When this comes, then ye shall know that I am lord LORD. And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that upon which they set their heart--their sons and their daughters-- that in that day he who escapes shall come to thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? In that day thy mouth shall be opened to him who is escaped, and thou shall speak, and no more be mute. So thou shall be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am LORD.

And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. And he spoke to the sons of Israel, saying, When your sons shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean? read more.
Then ye shall let your sons know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. For LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over, that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of LORD, that it is mighty, that ye may fear LORD your God forever.

Speak to the sons of Israel, and bid them that they make for them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of each border a cord of blue. And it shall be to you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of LORD, and do them, and that ye not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot,

Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. And thou shall move from thy place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house. And thou shall bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving. And thou shall go forth thyself at evening in their sight, as when men go forth into exile. Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out by that. read more.
Thou shall bear it upon thy shoulder in their sight, and carry it forth in the dark. Thou shall cover thy face, that thou not see the land. For I have set thee for a sign to the house of Israel. And I did so as I was commanded. I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for moving, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it upon my shoulder in their sight. And in the morning the word of LORD came to me, saying, Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to thee, What are thou doing? Say thou to them, Thus says lord LORD: This burden [concerns] the ruler in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are. Say, I am your sign. Just as I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity. And the ruler who is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth. They shall dig through the wall to carry out by it. He shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes. I will also spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there. And I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about him to help him, and all his groups. And I will draw out the sword after them. And they shall know that I am LORD, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries. But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come. And they shall know that I am LORD.

Thus said LORD: Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests, and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee. And say, Hear ye the word of LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle. read more.
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither did it come into my mind. Therefore, behold, the days come, says LORD, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter. And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. And I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. And I will give their dead bodies to be food for And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it. And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. And they shall eat each one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, s Then thou shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with thee, and shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts: Even so I will break this people and this city, as a potter's vessel is broken, that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury in Topheth till there be no place to bury. Thus I will do to this place, says LORD, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Topheth.

Thus says LORD to me, Go, and buy thee a linen sash, and put it upon thy loins, and do not put it in water. So I bought a sash according to the word of LORD, and put it upon my loins. And the word of LORD came to me the second time, saying, read more.
Take the sash that thou have bought, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as LORD commanded me. And it came to pass after many days, that LORD said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the sash from there, which I commanded thee to hide there. Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the sash from the place where I had hid it. And, behold, the sash was rotten. It was good for nothing. Then the word of LORD came to me, saying, Thus says LORD, After this manner I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this sash, which is good for nothing. For as the sash clings to the loins of a man, so I have caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says LORD, that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory

I went by the field of the sluggard, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding. And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns. The face of it was covered with nettles, and the stone wall of it was broken down. Then I beheld, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: read more.
[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, the word of LORD came to me, saying, Son of man, write thee the name of the day, [even] of this selfsame day; the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this selfsame day. And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus says lord LORD: Set on the caldron. Set it on, and also pour water into it. read more.
Gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] for the bones under [the caldron]. Make it boil well, yea, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it. Therefore thus says lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot has fallen upon it. For her blood is in the midst of her. She set it upon the bare rock. She did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust. That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered. Therefore thus says lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. Heap on the wood; make the fire hot. Boil the flesh well, and make the broth thick. And let the bones be burned. Then set it empty upon the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. She has wearied [herself] with toil, yet her great scum does not go forth out of her, her scum by fire. In thy filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed thee and thou were not cleansed, thou shall not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest. I, LORD, have spoken it. It shall come to pass, and I will do it. I will not go back. I will neither spare, nor will I repent. According to thy ways, and according to thy doings, they shall judge thee, says lord LORD.

at that time LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. And LORD said, Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,

Also take thou to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread of it, [according to] the number of the days that thou shall lay upon thy side, even three hun And thy food which thou shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. Thou shall eat it from time to time. And thou shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. Thou shall drink from time to time. read more.
And thou shall eat it as barley cakes, and thou shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man. And LORD said, Even thus shall the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them. Then I said, Ah lord LORD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth. Then he said to me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shall prepare thy bread of it. Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay, that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

Sigh therefore, thou son of man. With the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness thou shall sigh before their eyes. And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why do thou sigh? That thou shall say, Because of the news. For it comes, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak

Moreover lay thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. [According to] the number of the days that thou shall lay upon it, thou shall bear their iniquity. For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be a number of days to thee, even three hundred and ninety days. So thou shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. And again, when thou have accomplished these, thou shall lay on thy right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, each day for a year. I have appointed it to thee. read more.
And thou shall set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered, and thou shall prophesy against it. And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shall not turn thee from one side to the other, till thou have accomplished the days of thy siege.

Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem. And lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it, and plant battering rams against it round about. And take thou to thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city. And set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

And Moses said, This is the thing which LORD has commanded. Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egy

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law. And the people [stood] in their place.

And this man began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside, and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.

Also in the third year of his reign he sent his rulers, even Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

And Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Scripture, he preached the good-news to him--the man Jesus.

And having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying,