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Proverbs 8:36
Proverbs 8:36 is verse 36 of Proverbs chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
King James Version
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
World English Bible
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
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Proverbs 8:34–36 · Berean Standard Bible
34 Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
35 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
36 But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
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Cross-references
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Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 20:2The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
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John 3:20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
Acts 13:46Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
Hebrews 2:3how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
Hebrews 10:29How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
Proverbs 5:11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Proverbs 5:23He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
John 15:23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
John 15:24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
1 Corinthians 16:22If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!