Proverbs 8:36

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:32 : 32 He who will not be controlled by training has no respect for his soul, but he who gives ear to teaching will get wisdom.
  • Prov 20:2 : 2 The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
  • Prov 5:11-12 : 11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted; 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
  • Prov 5:22-23 : 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin. 23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.
  • Prov 21:6 : 6 He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?
  • Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil. 20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.
  • Acts 13:46 : 46 Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;
  • Heb 10:29 : 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

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    21Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

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    21Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?

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    12There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

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    32He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

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    25There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

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    23He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.

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