Proverbs 13:13

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“He who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but the one who respects a command will be rewarded.”

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“He who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but the one who respects a command will be rewarded.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Whoso despiseth the word bringeth destruction on himself; But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.”

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“Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 13:13 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 15:31He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
  2. 2 Samuel 12:9Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
  3. 2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
  4. Ezra 10:3So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.
  5. Psalms 19:11By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.
  6. Psalms 19:12Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
  7. Psalms 115:13He will bless those who fear the LORD— small and great alike.
  8. Psalms 119:165Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.
  9. Proverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
  10. Proverbs 1:30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
  11. Proverbs 13:21Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.
  12. Proverbs 16:20Whoever heeds instruction will find success, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.
  13. Isaiah 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
  14. Jeremiah 43:2Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’
  15. Jeremiah 44:16“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
  16. Ezekiel 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
  17. Ezekiel 20:16because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
  18. Ezekiel 20:24For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
  19. Malachi 3:16At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
  20. Matthew 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
  21. Luke 16:31Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
  22. Hebrews 10:28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  23. 2 John 1:8Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.

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