Proverbs 9:12

Modern English Version

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Cross References

Job 19:4

And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.

Job 22:21

“Now acquaint yourself with Him and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

Proverbs 14:14

The perverse in heart will be repaid for his own ways, but a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of a laborer works for him; his hunger urges him on.

Proverbs 19:29

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore, do not continue as mockers, lest your bonds be made stronger; for I have heard from the Lord God of Hosts of determined destruction upon the whole earth.

Ezekiel 18:20

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the punishment of the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the punishment of the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Zechariah 12:14

and all the families that remain, each by itself and their wives by themselves.

Galatians 6:5

For each one shall bear his own burden.

2 Peter 3:16

As in all his letters, he writes about these things, in which some things are hard to understand, which the unlearned and unstable distort, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.