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Deuteronomy 28:1-14
“ Now if you faithfully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today, the LORD your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.All these blessings will come and overtake you, because you obey the LORD your God:You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.Your offspring will be blessed, and your land’s produce, and the offspring of your livestock, including the young of your herds and the newborn of your flocks.Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.“ The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions.The LORD will grant you a blessing on your barns and on everything you do; he will bless you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he swore to you, if you obey the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you bear the LORD’s name, and they will stand in awe of you.The LORD will make you prosper abundantly with offspring, the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the LORD swore to your ancestors to give you.The LORD will open for you his abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the LORD your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not follow other gods to worship them.
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Psalms 128:1-2
How happy is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!You will surely eat what your hands have worked for. You will be happy, and it will go well for you.
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Ezekiel 18:9-19
He follows my statutes and keeps my ordinances, acting faithfully. Such a person is righteous; he will certainly live.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.“ But suppose the man has a violent son, who sheds blood and does any of these things,though the father has done none of them. Indeed, when the son eats at the mountain shrines and defiles his neighbor’s wife,and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he looks to the idols, commits detestable acts,and lends at interest or for profit, will he live? He will not live! Since he has committed all these detestable acts, he will certainly die. His death will be his own fault.“ Now suppose he has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, and though he sees them, he does not do likewise.He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.He doesn’t oppress anyone, hold collateral, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.He keeps his hand from harming the poor, not taking interest or profit on a loan. He practices my ordinances and follows my statutes. Such a person will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will certainly live.“ As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity because he practiced fraud, robbed his brother, and did among his people what was not good.But you may ask,‘ Why doesn’t the son suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all my statutes, he will certainly live.
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Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you demonstrated for his name by serving the saints— and by continuing to serve them.
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Ecclesiastes 8:12
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, I also know that it will go well with God-fearing people, for they are reverent before him.
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Psalms 18:23-24
I was blameless toward him and kept myself from my iniquity.So the LORD repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
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Galatians 6:7-8
Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap,because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
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Zephaniah 2:3
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth, who carry out what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the LORD’s anger.
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Ezekiel 9:4
“ Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,” the LORD said to him,“ and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable practices committed in it.”
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Isaiah 26:20-21
Go, my people, enter your rooms and close your doors behind you. Hide for a little while until the wrath has passed.For look, the LORD is coming from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal the blood shed on it and will no longer conceal her slain.
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Malachi 3:18
So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
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Jeremiah 15:11
The LORD said: Haven’t I set you loose for your good? Haven’t I punished you in a time of trouble, in a time of distress with the enemy?
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Romans 2:5-11
Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.He will repay each one according to his works:eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality;but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness.There will be affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.For there is no favoritism with God.