Proverbs 9:12
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12 (A)If you are wise, you are wise for yourself;
if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
Job 22:2-3
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2 (A)“Can a man be profitable to God?
Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,
or is it gain to him if you (B)make your ways blameless?
2 Peter 3:3-4
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3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come (A)in the last days with scoffing, (B)following their own sinful desires. 4 (C)They will say, “Where is the promise of (D)his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”
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Ezekiel 18:20
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20 (A)The soul who sins shall die. (B)The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. (C)The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, (D)and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
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Job 22:21
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Isaiah 28:22
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22 Now therefore do not (A)scoff,
lest your bonds be made strong;
for I have heard (B)a decree of destruction
from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.
Proverbs 16:26
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26 A worker's appetite works for him;
his (A)mouth urges him on.
Job 35:6-7
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6 If you have sinned, (A)what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 (B)If you are righteous, what do you give to him?
Or what does he receive from your hand?
2 Peter 3:16
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16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. (A)There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, (B)as they do the other Scriptures.
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