Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit;
if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”

Job 22:2-3

Can a man be of any use to God?
Can even a wise man be of use to Him?

Job 22:21

Come to terms with God and be at peace;
in this way good will come to you.

Job 35:6-7

If you sin, how does it affect God?
If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?

Proverbs 16:26

A worker’s appetite works for him
because his hunger urges him on.

Isaiah 28:22

So now, do not mock,
or your shackles will become stronger.
Indeed, I have heard from the Lord God of Hosts
a decree of destruction for the whole land.

The person who sins is the one who will die. A son won’t suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity, and a father won’t suffer punishment for the son’s iniquity. The righteousness of the righteous person will be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked person will be on him.

2 Peter 3:3-4

First, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, living according to their own desires,

2 Peter 3:16

He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

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