Proverbs 9:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Job 19:4

And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.

Job 22:21

“Agree with God, and be at peace; in this way good will come to you.

Proverbs 14:14

The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve.

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of workers works for them; their hunger urges them on.

Proverbs 19:29

Punishments are prepared for scoffers and flogging for the backs of fools.

Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore do not scoff, or your bonds will be made stronger, for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.

Ezekiel 18:20

The person who sins shall die. A child shall not suffer for the iniquity of a parent nor a parent suffer for the iniquity of a child; the righteousness of the righteous shall be their own, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be their own.

Zechariah 12:14

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

Galatians 6:5

For all must carry their own loads.

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.