Job 19:4
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4 And even if it is true that I have erred,
my error remains with me.(A)
Proverbs 9:12
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12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself;
if you scoff, you alone will bear it.(A)
Galatians 6:5
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5 For all must carry their own loads.
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2 Corinthians 5:10
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10 For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive due recompense for actions done in the body, whether good or evil.(A)
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Ezekiel 18:4
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4 Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child is mine: it is only the person who sins who shall die.(A)
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Job 11:3-6
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3 Should your babble put others to silence,
and when you mock, shall no one shame you?(A)
4 For you say, ‘My conduct[a] is pure,
and I am clean in God’s[b] sight.’(B)
5 But O that God would speak
and open his lips to you
6 and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom!
For wisdom is many-sided.[c]
Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.(C)
2 Samuel 24:17
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17 When David saw the angel who was destroying the people, he said to the Lord, “I alone have sinned, and I, the shepherd, have done evil,[a] but these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”(A)
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- 24.17 Q ms Gk: MT reads I alone have done wickedly
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