Proverbs 8:36

Conservative English Version

But if you don't find me, you hurt only yourself, and if you hate me, you are in love with death.

Cross References

Job 35:6

and think! Do your sins hurt God?

Proverbs 1:31

"Now you will eat the fruit of what you have done, until you are stuffed full with your own schemes.

Proverbs 1:32

Sin and self-satisfaction bring destruction and death to stupid fools.

Proverbs 12:1

To accept correction is wise, to reject it is stupid.

Proverbs 15:32

You hurt only yourself by rejecting instruction, but it makes good sense to accept it.

Proverbs 20:2

An angry ruler is like a roaring lion-- make either one angry, and you are dead.

Proverbs 21:6

Cheating to get rich is a foolish dream and no less than suicide.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on your faces shows that you are sinful as Sodom, and you don't try to hide it. You are in for trouble, and you have brought it all on yourselves.

Jeremiah 27:13

But if you refuse, then you and your people will die from war, hunger, and disease, just as the LORD has warned.

Ezekiel 18:31

Give up your evil ways and start thinking pure thoughts. And be faithful to me! Do you really want to be put to death for your sins?

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them that as surely as I am the living LORD God, I don't like to see wicked people die. I enjoy seeing them turn from their sins and live. So if the Israelites want to live, they must stop sinning and turn back to me.

Acts 13:46

But Paul and Barnabas bravely said: We had to tell God's message to you before we told it to anyone else. But you rejected the message! This proves that you don't deserve eternal life. Now we are going to the Gentiles.

Acts 16:28

But Paul shouted, "Don't harm yourself! No one has escaped."

1 Corinthians 16:22

I pray that God will put a curse on everyone who doesn't love the Lord. And may the Lord come soon.

Hebrews 10:29

But it is much worse to dishonor God's Son and to disgrace the blood of the promise that made us holy. And it is just as bad to insult the Holy Spirit, who shows us mercy.

Hebrews 2:3

So if we refuse this great way of being saved, how can we hope to escape? The Lord himself was the first to tell about it, and people who heard the message proved to us that it was true.