Proverbs 13:13

A Wise Son Lives Righteously

¹² Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but the desire that cometh to pass is a tree of life. ¹³ Whoso despiseth the word shall be held by it; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. ¹⁴ The teaching of the wise man is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.

Despises the Word

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Numbers 15:31

For he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment: that soul shall surely be cut off; his iniquity is upon him.

2 Samuel 12:9-10

Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah to do evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Urijah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Ezra 10:3

And now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandments of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Psalm 19:11

Moreover, by them is thy servant enlightened; in keeping them there is great reward.

Psalm 115:13

He will bless them that fear Jehovah, both the small and the great.

Psalm 119:165

Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing doth stumble them.

Proverbs 1:25

and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Proverbs 1:30-31

they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:

Proverbs 13:21

Evil pursueth sinners; but to the righteous good shall be repaid.

Isaiah 66:2

Even all these things hath my hand made, and all these things have been, saith Jehovah. But to this man will I look: to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and who trembleth at my word.

Jeremiah 43:2

then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there;

Jeremiah 44:16-17

As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee,

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned: and I said I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Ezekiel 20:16

because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:24

because they performed not mine ordinances, and rejected my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

Malachi 3:16

Then they that feared Jehovah spoke often one to another; and Jehovah observed it, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Luke 16:31

And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among the dead will they be persuaded.

Hebrews 10:28-29

Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses:

2 John 1:8

See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages.