Proverbs 23:35
"They hit me, and I was not hurt; They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 56:12 : 12 Come you, [say they], I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.
- Jer 5:3 : 3 O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
- Prov 26:11 : 11 As a dog that returns to his vomit, So is a fool who repeats his folly.
- Prov 27:22 : 22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, Yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
- Isa 22:13 : 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
- Deut 29:19 : 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
- Jer 31:18 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- 1 Cor 15:32-34 : 32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." 33 Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals." 34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
- Eph 4:19 : 19 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
- 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire."
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