Proverbs 1:32
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32 For waywardness kills the simple,
and the complacency of fools destroys them;(A)
Hebrews 12:25
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25 See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!(A)
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Proverbs 8:36
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36 but those who miss me injure themselves;
all who hate me love death.”(A)
John 3:36
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36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life but must endure God’s wrath.(A)
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Jeremiah 2:19
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19 Your wickedness will punish you,
and your faithlessness will convict you.
Know and see that it is evil and bitter
for you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
says the Lord God of hosts.(A)
Hebrews 12:8
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8 If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.(A)
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Luke 16:19-25
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The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,(A) 21 who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.[a] The rich man also died and was buried.(B) 23 In Hades, where he was being tormented, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side.[b](C) 24 He called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames.’(D) 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.(E)
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Luke 12:16-21
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16 Then he told them a parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. 17 And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’ 18 Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’(A) 20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(B) 21 So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”(C)
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Jeremiah 48:11-12
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11 Moab has been at ease from his youth,
settled like wine[a] on its dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
nor has he gone into exile;
therefore his flavor has remained,
and his aroma is unspoiled.(A)
12 Therefore, the time is surely coming, says the Lord, when I shall send to him decanters to decant him and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces.
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- 48.11 Heb lacks like wine
Psalm 92:6-7
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6 The dullard cannot know;
the stupid cannot understand this:
7 though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever,(A)
Psalm 69:22
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22 Let their table be a trap for them,
a snare for their allies.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:15-44
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15 Jacob ate his fill;[a]
Jeshurun grew fat and kicked.
You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!
He abandoned God who made him
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.(A)
16 They made him jealous with strange gods;
with abhorrent things they provoked him.(B)
17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to deities they had never known,
to new ones recently arrived,
whom your ancestors had not feared.(C)
18 You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you;[b]
you forgot the God who gave you birth.(D)
19 The Lord saw it and was jealous;[c]
he spurned[d] his sons and daughters.(E)
20 He said, ‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom there is no faithfulness.(F)
21 They made me jealous with what is no god,
provoked me with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with what is no people,
provoke them with a foolish nation.(G)
22 For a fire is kindled by my anger
and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the earth and its increase
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.(H)
23 I will heap disasters upon them,
spend my arrows against them:(I)
24 wasting hunger,
burning consumption,
bitter pestilence.
The teeth of beasts I will send against them,
with venom of things crawling in the dust.(J)
25 In the street the sword shall bereave,
and in the chambers terror
for young man and woman alike,
nursing child and old gray head.(K)
26 I said, “I will make an end of them[e]
and blot out the memory of them from humankind,”(L)
27 but I feared provocation by the enemy,
for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, “Our hand is triumphant;
it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’(M)
28 They are a nation void of sense;
there is no understanding in them.
29 If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would discern what their end would be.(N)
30 How could one have routed a thousand
and two put a myriad to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
the Lord had given them up?(O)
31 Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock;
our enemies are fools.[f](P)
32 Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom,
from the vineyards of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison;
their clusters are bitter;
33 their wine is the poison of serpents,
the cruel venom of asps.(Q)
34 Is not this laid up in store with me,
sealed up in my treasuries,(R)
35 for the day of vengeance[g] and recompense,
for the time when their foot shall slip?
Because the day of their calamity is at hand;
their doom comes swiftly.(S)
36 Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people,
have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
neither bond nor free remaining.(T)
37 Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,
the rock in which they took refuge,(U)
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their libations?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them be your protection!
39 See now that I, even I, am he;
there is no god besides me.
I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;
and no one can deliver from my hand.(V)
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven
and swear, As I live forever,
41 when I whet my flashing sword
and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and will repay those who hate me.(W)
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the long-haired enemy.’(X)
43 Praise, O heavens,[h] his people;
worship him, all you gods![i]
For he will avenge the blood of his children[j]
and take vengeance on his adversaries;
he will repay those who hate him[k]
and cleanse the land for his people.”[l](Y)
44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua[m] son of Nun.
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- 32.15 Q mss Sam Gk: MT lacks Jacob ate his fill
- 32.18 Or that fathered you
- 32.19 Q mss Gk: MT lacks was jealous
- 32.19 Cn: Heb he spurned because of provocation
- 32.26 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
- 32.31 Gk: Heb judges
- 32.35 Sam Gk: MT vengeance is mine
- 32.43 Q ms Gk: MT nations
- 32.43 Q ms Gk: MT lacks this line
- 32.43 Q ms Gk: MT his servants
- 32.43 Q ms Gk: MT lacks this line
- 32.43 Q ms Sam Gk Vg: MT his land his people
- 32.44 Sam Gk Syr Vg: MT Hoshea
James 5:5
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5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.(A)
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Hebrews 10:38-39
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38 but my righteous one will live by faith.
My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”(A)
39 But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.(B)
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