Proverbs 9:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

If you are wise, you will be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

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  • Job 22:2-3 : 2 Can a person be beneficial to God, as one who is wise may benefit themselves? 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways perfect?
  • Job 22:21 : 21 Acquaint yourself with Him now and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.
  • Job 35:6-7 : 6 If you sin, what do you do against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? 7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? or what does he receive from your hand?
  • Prov 16:26 : 26 He who labors, labors for himself, for his mouth craves it of him.
  • Isa 28:22 : 22 Now therefore do not be mockers, lest your bonds be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
  • Ezek 18:20 : 20 The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
  • 2 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 As also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to understand, which those who are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

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  • Prov 3:35
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  • Prov 15:12
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    12A scorner does not love one who reproves him, nor will he go to the wise.

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