A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who restrains himself because of reproof is prudent.

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

Do not reprove a scorner, lest he hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Give to a wise one, and he will become wiser; teach a just one, and he will increase in learning.

He who walks with the wise will be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Give heed to counsel, and receive instruction, so that you may be wise in your latter days.

As a ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an attentive ear.

Extend your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

You are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that not all of them are of us.