Proverbs 9:12

The Passion Translation

So it is to your advantage to be wise. But to ignore the counsel of wisdom is to invite trouble into your life.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:14

Those who turn from the truth get what they deserve, but a good person receives a sweet reward.

Proverbs 16:26

Life motivation comes from the deep longings of the heart, and the passion to see them fulfilled urges you onward.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgment is waiting for those who mock the truth, and foolish living invites a beating.

Isaiah 28:22

So do not mock, or your bonds will grow tighter. For I have heard the decree from my Lord Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies. He spoke a decree of destruction against the whole land.

Ezekiel 18:20

It is the one who sins who will die. A child is not to bear his father’s guilt nor a father his child’s guilt. Good people will be credited for their own righteousness and the wicked with his own wickedness.”

Galatians 6:5

Every believer is ultimately responsible for his or her own conscience.

2 Peter 3:16

He consistently speaks of these things in all of his letters, even though he writes some concepts that are overwhelming to our understanding, which the unlearned and unstable love to twist to their spiritual ruin, as they do to other Scriptures.