Theology & Doctrine

Bible Verses About having a teachable spirit

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Discover 18 powerful Bible verses about having a teachable spirit. Study what Scripture teaches about this essential theology & doctrine topic.

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TranslationKey Verse: 1 Peter 5:5
King James (KJV)Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

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Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. among: or, by
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. ungodly: or, wicked
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
And he said, How can I , except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. He: Heb. A man of reproofs
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily , whether those things were so.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Train: or, Catechise in: Heb. in his way

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