Proverbs 9:12

New English Translation

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.

Cross References

Job 19:4

But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!

Job 22:21

“Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.

Proverbs 14:14

The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

Proverbs 16:26

A laborer’s appetite works on his behalf, for his hunger urges him to work.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.

Isaiah 28:22

So now, do not mock, or your chains will become heavier! For I have heard a message about decreed destruction, from the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, against the entire land.

Ezekiel 18:20

The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness.

Zechariah 12:14

all the clans that remain, each separately with their wives.”

Galatians 6:5

For each one will carry his own load.

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.