Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself [for your own benefit];
If you scoff [thoughtlessly ridicule and disdain], you alone will pay the penalty.

Job 22:2-3

“Can a vigorous man be of use to God,
Or a wise man be useful to himself?

Job 22:21

“Now yield and submit yourself to Him [agree with God and be conformed to His will] and be at peace;
In this way [you will prosper and great] good will come to you.

Job 35:6-7

“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of a worker works for him,
For his hunger urges him on.

Isaiah 28:22

Now do not carry on as scoffers,
Or the bands which bind you will be made stronger;
For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts [a decree]
Of decisive destruction on all the earth.

The person who sins [is the one that] will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the sin of the father, nor will the father bear the punishment for the sin of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on himself.

2 Peter 3:3-4

First of all, know [without any doubt] that mockers will come in the last days with their mocking, following after their own human desires

2 Peter 3:16

speaking about these things as he does in all of his letters. In which there are some things that are difficult to understand, which the untaught and unstable [who have fallen into error] twist and misinterpret, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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