Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
Like people
Reward them
General references
Bible References
Like people
Isaiah 9:14
So Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed (rush) in one day.
Isaiah 24:2
The people will be like the one officiating, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.
Jeremiah 5:31
Prophets prophesy falsehoods. Priests rule under the prophets' directions, and my people love this. But what will you do when the end comes?'
Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their wives to other men. I will give their fields to new owners. From the least even to the greatest everyone is greedy for gain. From the prophet even to the priest everyone is deceitful.
Jeremiah 23:11
The prophets and priests are godless. Even in my Temple I have found them doing evil, declares Jehovah.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the profane. They have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Matthew 15:14
Let them be. They are blind guides. If a blind man guides another blind man, they will fall in a hole together.
Reward them
Psalm 109:17
He loved to put curses on others, so he, too, was cursed. He did not like to bless others, so he never received a blessing.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities will catch the wicked. He will be held with the cords of his sins.
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous that blessings will come to them. They will taste the fruit of their labor.
Zechariah 1:6
I commanded my servants the prophets to obey my words and my statutes. They disregarded them and suffered greatly. Then they repented and admitted that I, Jehovah of Hosts, corrected them as they deserved according to their deeds.'
General references
Acts 23:14
They went to the chief priests and elders and said: We have united with a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.