Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.
Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,
I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.
Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.
Then all the men who knew that their wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:
Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
“But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.