Proverbs 13:13

New American Bible - revised edition

Whoever despises the word must pay for it, but whoever reveres the command will be rewarded.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the Lord’s anger against his people blazed up beyond remedy.

Ezra 10:3

Let us therefore enter into a covenant before our God to dismiss all our foreign wives and the children born of them, in keeping with what you, my lord, advise, and those who are in dread of the commandments of our God. Let it be done according to the law!

Psalm 115:13

Will bless those who fear the Lord, small and great alike.

Psalm 119:165

Lovers of your law have much peace; for them there is no stumbling block.

Psalm 19:11

More desirable than gold, than a hoard of purest gold, Sweeter also than honey or drippings from the comb.

Psalm 19:12

By them your servant is warned; obeying them brings much reward.

Exodus 9:20

Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the word of the Lord hurried their servants and their livestock off to shelter.

Proverbs 1:25

Because you disdained all my counsel, and my reproof you ignored—

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a wish fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 13:21

Misfortune pursues sinners, but the just shall be recompensed with good.

Proverbs 16:20

Whoever ponders a matter will be successful; happy the one who trusts in the Lord!

Proverbs 19:16

Those who keep commands keep their lives, but those who despise these ways will die.

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made all these things when all of them came to be—oracle of the Lord. This is the one whom I approve: the afflicted one, crushed in spirit, who trembles at my word.

Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah, son of Hoshaiah, Johanan, son of Kareah, and all the others had the insolence to say to Jeremiah: “You lie; the Lord, our God, did not send you to tell us, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there.’

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not observe my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances that bring life to those who keep them. My sabbaths, too, they desecrated grievously. Then I considered pouring out my fury on them in the wilderness to put an end to them,

Ezekiel 20:16

Their hearts followed after their idols so closely that they did not live by my statutes, but rejected my ordinances and desecrated my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 20:24

because they did not carry out my ordinances, but rejected my statutes and desecrated my sabbaths, having eyes only for the idols of their ancestors.

Malachi 3:16

Then those who fear the Lord spoke with one another, and the Lord listened attentively; A record book was written before him of those who fear the Lord and esteem his name.

Numbers 15:31

For having despised the word of the Lord and broken his commandment, he must be cut off entirely and bear the punishment. The Sabbath-breaker.

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you. The Similes of Salt and Light.

Luke 16:31

Then Abraham said, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.’”

2 John 1:8

Look to yourselves that you do not lose what we worked for but may receive a full recompense.