Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,
And if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Job 22:2-3

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

Job 22:21

“Yield now and be at peace with Him;
Thereby good will come to you.

Job 35:6-7

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

Proverbs 16:26

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

Isaiah 28:22

And now do not carry on as scoffers,
Or your fetters will be made stronger;
For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts
Of decisive destruction on all the earth.

The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

2 Peter 3:3-4

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,

2 Peter 3:16

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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