Proverbs 5:11-12
5:11 And at the end of your life you will groan
when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
5:12 And you will say, “How I hated discipline!
My heart spurned reproof!
Proverbs 5:22-23
5:22 The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities,
and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
5:23 He will die because there was no discipline;
because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.
Ezekiel 18:31
18:31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit!
Why should you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 33:11
33:11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign
Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior
and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds!
Why should you die, O house of Israel?’
John 15:23-24
15:23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.
15:24 If I had not performed
among them the miraculous deeds
that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin.
But now they have seen the deeds
and have hated both me and my Father.
John 15:1
The Vine and the Branches
15:1 “I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
Colossians 1:22
1:22 but now he has reconciled you
by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –