Leviticus 26:18

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“‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:28 : 28 I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.
  • Lev 26:21 : 21 “‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.
  • Lev 26:24 : 24 I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.
  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 The well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman has given birth to seven, but the one with many children has declined.
  • Ps 119:164 : 164 Seven times a day I praise you because of your just regulations.
  • Prov 24:16 : 16 Indeed a righteous person will fall seven times, and then get up again, but the guilty will collapse in calamity.
  • Dan 3:19 : 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 26:23-25
    3 verses
    90%

    23“‘If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,

    24I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.

    25I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.

  • Lev 26:27-28
    2 verses
    88%

    27“‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,

    28I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

  • Lev 26:19-21
    3 verses
    87%

    19I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

    20Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

    21“‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

  • Lev 26:14-17
    4 verses
    79%

    14The Consequences of Disobedience“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments–

    15if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant–

    16I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

    17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

  • 74%

    19“But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

    20then I will remove you from my land I have given you, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and I will make you an object of mockery and ridicule among all the nations.

  • Jer 26:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing.

    4Tell them that the LORD says,‘You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws.

  • 2If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses– indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.

  • Jer 25:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’

    7So, now the LORD says,‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done. Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’

  • 13I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

  • 14But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’ says the LORD.‘I will set fire to your palace; it will burn up everything around it.’”

  • 23“But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned against the LORD. And know that your sin will find you out.

  • 41(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,

  • 17I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the LORD.

  • Ezek 7:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Soon now I will pour out my rage on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior. I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices.

    9My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who is striking you.

  • 6“But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

  • 15But if you don’t obey the LORD and rebel against what the LORD says, the hand of the LORD will be against both you and your king.

  • 32I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, their sin by inflicting them with bruises.

  • 4This is what the LORD says:“Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions– make that four!– I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the LORD’s law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.

  • 10But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.

  • 17But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,’” says the LORD.

  • 15With furious anger I will carry out vengeance on the nations that do not obey me.”

  • 13When I close up the sky so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, or send a plague among my people,

  • 17Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.

  • 15Curses as Reversal of Blessings“But if you ignore the LORD your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

  • 13But correct the way you have been living and do what is right. Obey the LORD your God. If you do, the LORD will forgo destroying you as he threatened he would.

  • 14“For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘As I had planned to hurt you when your fathers made me angry,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,‘and I was not sorry,

  • 24and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

  • 7I thought,‘Certainly you will respect me! Now you will accept correction!’ If she had done so, her home would not be destroyed by all the punishments I have threatened. But they eagerly sinned in everything they did.

  • 6I, the LORD, say:‘You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.’ So I have unleashed my power against you and have begun to destroy you. I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!”

  • 25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • 27Then the LORD said to me,“When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.

  • 4My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that I am the LORD!

  • Jer 15:13-14
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    71%

    13I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder. I will give it away free of charge for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

    14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”

  • 21“‘But the children rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out(the one who obeys them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

  • 31I will punish him and his descendants and the officials who serve him for the wicked things they have done. I will bring on them, the citizens of Jerusalem, and the people of Judah all the disaster that I threatened to do to them. I will punish them because I threatened them but they still paid no heed.”’”

  • 7The LORD asked,“How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.

  • 33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.