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)
Job 22:2-3
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2 “Can a mortal be of use to God?
Can even the wisest be of service to him?(A)
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty[a] if you are righteous,
or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
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- 22.3 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
2 Peter 3:3-4
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3 First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts(A) 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died,[a] all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!”(B)
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- 3.4 Gk our fathers fell asleep
Ezekiel 18:20
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20 The person who sins shall die. A child shall not suffer for the iniquity of a parent nor a parent suffer for the iniquity of a child; the righteousness of the righteous shall be their own, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be their own.(A)
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Job 22:21
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- 22.21 Heb him
Isaiah 28:22
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22 Now therefore do not scoff,
or your bonds will be made stronger,
for I have heard a decree of destruction
from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.(A)
Proverbs 16:26
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26 The appetite of workers works for them;
their hunger urges them on.
Job 35:6-7
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6 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?(A)
7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him,
or what does he receive from your hand?(B)
2 Peter 3:16
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16 speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist[a] to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.
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- 3.16 Other ancient authorities read will twist
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