Proverbs 8:36

Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

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Genesis 1:31
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Psalms 104:24
Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

Psalms 136:5
to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his loving kindness endures forever;

Proverbs 3:19
By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

Proverbs 3:20
By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

Proverbs 8:22
“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.

Proverbs 8:23
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

Proverbs 8:24
When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.

Proverbs 8:25
Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;

Proverbs 8:26
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

Proverbs 8:27
When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

Proverbs 8:28
when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

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Exodus 20:13
“You shall not murder.

Ecclesiastes 7:17
Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

Acts 16:28
But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”

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Leviticus 5:1
“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Numbers 9:13
But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

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Deuteronomy 30:15
Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.

Jeremiah 7:6
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,

Jeremiah 21:8
“You shall say to this people, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Jeremiah 27:15
For I have not sent them,” says Yahweh, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

Lamentations 2:6
He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.

Ezekiel 22:3
You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

2 Kings 17:7
It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

2 Kings 17:8
and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

2 Kings 17:9
The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

2 Kings 17:10
and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

2 Kings 17:11
and there they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them did; and they did wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

2 Kings 17:12
and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”

2 Kings 17:13
Yet Yahweh testified to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

2 Kings 17:14
Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck like the neck of their fathers who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

2 Kings 17:15
They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Nehemiah 9:26
“Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

Jeremiah 2:17
“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

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Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Joshua 24:16
The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

Joshua 24:17
for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.

Joshua 24:18
Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”

Joshua 24:19
Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

Joshua 24:20
If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

Joshua 24:21
The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve Yahweh.”

Joshua 24:22
Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”

Psalms 119:30
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

Psalms 119:111
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Psalms 119:173
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Isaiah 56:4
For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

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Judges 20:16
Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

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2 Samuel 22:41
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

Psalms 18:39
For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

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2 Kings 17:16
They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

Jeremiah 4:18
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

Jeremiah 5:25
“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

Malachi 1:9
“Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.

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2 Kings 21:15
because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’ ”

Jeremiah 7:18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 32:30
“For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 32:31
For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day, so that I should remove it from before my face,

Jeremiah 32:32
because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 32:33
They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

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Job 1:22
In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

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Job 35:7
If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

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Job 35:8
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

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Psalms 38:5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.

Psalms 69:5
God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

Ecclesiastes 8:6
For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 10:8
He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

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Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:17
For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

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Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:23
Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

Proverbs 1:25
but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

Romans 1:27
Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Galatians 5:19
Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

2 Thessalonians 2:11
Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,

2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

2 Timothy 4:4
and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

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Proverbs 8:29
when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Proverbs 8:31
rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

Jeremiah 10:12
God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

Romans 11:33
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Ephesians 1:8
which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

Ephesians 3:10
to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

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Proverbs 5:5
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Proverbs 5:6
She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

Proverbs 7:26
for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

Proverbs 7:27
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

Proverbs 9:16
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Proverbs 9:17
“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Proverbs 9:18
But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

Proverbs 13:14
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

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Proverbs 16:14
The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

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Proverbs 19:12
The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

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Proverbs 22:18
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Proverbs 22:19
I teach you today, even you, so that your trust may be in Yahweh.

Proverbs 22:20
Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

Proverbs 22:21
To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

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Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

Mark 9:44
‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

John 12:25
He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

2 Corinthians 3:6
who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

1 Peter 3:10
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

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Song of Solomon 7:8
I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples.

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Isaiah 33:11
You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

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Isaiah 55:6
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Jeremiah 3:22
Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

Jeremiah 31:18
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are Yahweh my God.

Jeremiah 31:19
Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

Ezekiel 14:6
“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Ezekiel 18:30
“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity will not be your ruin.

Daniel 9:13
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

Acts 3:19
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

Acts 9:5
He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Acts 26:20
but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

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Jeremiah 11:5
that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is today.” Then I answered, and said, “Amen, Yahweh.”

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Proverbs 2:22
But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 4:13
Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Proverbs 5:7
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 6:15
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

Jeremiah 38:20
But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

Ezekiel 33:8
When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.

John 5:40
Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

John 8:24
I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,

Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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Psalms 109:17
Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,

Proverbs 1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.

Proverbs 1:33
But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

Proverbs 3:25
Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;

Proverbs 5:13
I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

Proverbs 8:4
“I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.

Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Proverbs 17:16
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.

1 Thessalonians 5:20
Don’t despise prophecies.

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Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Luke 7:29
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

Luke 7:35
Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.

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Luke 10:42
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

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Numbers 10:35
When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”

Deuteronomy 5:9
You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me

2 Chronicles 19:2
Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

Psalms 14:1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

Proverbs 1:30
They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Jeremiah 42:20
For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’

Mark 16:16
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

John 3:18
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.

John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.

2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 5:1
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

Proverbs 7:4
Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

John 17:3
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

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Acts 4:12
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

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Proverbs 11:18
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Proverbs 11:27
He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

Romans 2:9
oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Galatians 6:5
For each man will bear his own burden.

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Ezekiel 18:24
“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Hebrews 10:27
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

Hebrews 10:28
A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 10:38
But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

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Proverbs 3:12
for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Proverbs 13:24
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Proverbs 19:18
Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 23:13
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 23:14
Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Proverbs 29:17
Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Hebrews 12:6
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Hebrews 12:7
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

Hebrews 12:8
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

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Romans 2:21
You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

Romans 2:23
You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

James 4:17
To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

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Isaiah 49:7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Zechariah 11:8
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 15:25
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

John 17:14
I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

1 John 3:12
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

1 John 3:13
Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

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