Proverbs 9:12

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If you are wise, your wisdom will benefit you; if you mock, you alone will suffer.

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  • Job 22:2-3 : 2 Can a man benefit God? Even a wise man benefits only himself. 3 Is it a delight to the Almighty if you are righteous? Or does He gain anything if your ways are blameless?
  • Job 22:21 : 21 Be reconciled with God now, and at peace with Him; this will bring good to you.
  • Job 35:6-7 : 6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against God? Even if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him? 7 If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
  • Prov 16:26 : 26 The laborer’s appetite works for him; his hunger drives him on.
  • Isa 28:22 : 22 Now do not mock, or your chains will be even heavier, for I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
  • Ezek 18:20 : 20 The soul who sins will die. The son will not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.
  • 2 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 First of all, you should understand that in the last days, mockers will come, following their own evil desires, 4 and they will say, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, everything continues just as it has from the beginning of creation.'
  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 As he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. In them, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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