Inexperienced people die because they reject wisdom. Stupid people are destroyed by their own lack of concern.

Your own evil will punish you, and your turning from me will condemn you. You will learn how bitter and wrong it is to abandon me, the LORD your God, and no longer to remain faithful to me. I, the Sovereign LORD Almighty, have spoken."

Why then, my people, do you turn away from me without ever turning back? You cling to your idols and refuse to return to me.

The LORD says, "I will condemn those who turn away from me and put their trust in human beings, in the strength of mortals.

The people of Israel are as stubborn as mules. How can I feed them like lambs in a meadow?

I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them."

My friends, be careful that none of you have a heart so evil and unbelieving that you will turn away from the living God.

If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.

What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true: "A dog goes back to what it has vomited" and "A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud."

So then, you will get what you deserve, and your own actions will make you sick.

Your reward depends on what you say and what you do; you will get what you deserve.

So I will turn my anger loose on them, and like a fire I will destroy them for what they have done." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.

Your joy is your own; your bitterness is your own. No one can share them with you.

but those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring which will provide them with life-giving water and give them eternal life."

We are proud that our conscience assures us that our lives in this world, and especially our relations with you, have been ruled by God-given frankness and sincerity, by the power of God's grace and not by human wisdom.

You should each judge your own conduct. If it is good, then you can be proud of what you yourself have done, without having to compare it with what someone else has done.

If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life.