Quotes About Consequences

Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.

The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.

If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.

while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you—to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

One man commits an abomination with his neighborís wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own fatherís daughter.

Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.

Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.

Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ëI will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—

And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant will be consumed by fire.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëSurely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust.

have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.í

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBecause you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.í”

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.

On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.

Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ëNow let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!í

But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëBring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.

They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.í”