Proverbs 10:17

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

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

Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

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:

They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.