Proverbs 9:12

New Century Version

The wise person is rewarded by wisdom, but whoever makes fun of wisdom will suffer for it.”

Cross References

Job 19:4

Even if I have sinned, it is my worry alone.

Job 22:21

“Obey God and be at peace with him; this is the way to happiness.

Proverbs 14:14

Evil people will be paid back for their evil ways, and good people will be rewarded for their good ones.

Proverbs 16:26

The workers’ hunger helps them, because their desire to eat makes them work.

Proverbs 19:29

People who make fun of wisdom will be punished, and the backs of foolish people will be beaten.

Isaiah 28:22

Now, you must not make fun of these things, or the ropes around you will become tighter. The Lord God All-Powerful has told me how the whole earth will be destroyed.

Ezekiel 18:20

The person who sins is the one who will die. A child will not be punished for a parent’s sin, and a parent will not be punished for a child’s sin. Those who do right will enjoy the results of their own goodness; evil people will suffer the results of their own evil.

Zechariah 12:14

and all the rest of the families by themselves and their wives by themselves.

Galatians 6:5

Each person must be responsible for himself.

2 Peter 3:16

He writes about this in all his letters. Some things in Paul’s letters are hard to understand, and people who are ignorant and weak in faith explain these things falsely. They also falsely explain the other Scriptures, but they are destroying themselves by doing this.