Parallel Verses
- Christian Standard Bible - Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for everyone who is a thief, contrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who swears falsely, contrary to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished.
- 新标点和合本 - 他对我说:“这是发出行在遍地上的咒诅。凡偷窃的必按卷上这面的话除灭;凡起假誓的必按卷上那面的话除灭。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 他对我说:“这就是向全地面发出的诅咒。凡偷窃的必按书卷这面的话除灭,凡起假誓的必按书卷那面的话除灭。
- 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 他对我说:“这就是向全地面发出的诅咒。凡偷窃的必按书卷这面的话除灭,凡起假誓的必按书卷那面的话除灭。
- 当代译本 - 他说:“这是临到全天下的咒诅,因为书卷一面写着‘凡偷盗的必被清除’,另一面写着‘凡起假誓的必被清除’。”
- 圣经新译本 - 他对我说:“这是向全地发出的咒诅:凡偷盗的必照着书卷这面所写的被清除;凡起假誓的必照着那面所记的被清除。
- 中文标准译本 - 他对我说:“这是向整个地面发出的诅咒。凡偷窃的都必照着书卷这一面上的话被清除,凡起假誓的都必照着书卷另一面上的话被清除。
- 现代标点和合本 - 他对我说:“这是发出行在遍地上的咒诅,凡偷窃的必按卷上这面的话除灭,凡起假誓的必按卷上那面的话除灭。
- 和合本(拼音版) - 他对我说:“这是发出行在遍地上的咒诅。凡偷窃的,必按卷上这面的话除灭;凡起假誓的,必按卷上那面的话除灭。
- New International Version - And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.
- New International Reader's Version - He said to me, “A curse sent by the Lord is written on it. It is going out over the whole land. Every thief will be driven out of the land. That is what it says on one side of the scroll. Everyone who lies when promising to tell the truth will also be driven out. That is what it says on the other side.
- English Standard Version - Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.
- New Living Translation - Then he said to me, “This scroll contains the curse that is going out over the entire land. One side of the scroll says that those who steal will be banished from the land; the other side says that those who swear falsely will be banished from the land.
- The Message - He told me, “This book is the verdict going out worldwide against thieves and liars. The first half of the book disposes of everyone who steals; the second half takes care of everyone who lies. I launched it”—Decree of God-of-the-Angel-Armies—“and so it will fly into the house of every thief and every liar. It will land in each house and tear it down, timbers and stones.”
- New American Standard Bible - Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going forth over the face of the entire land; everyone who steals certainly will be purged away according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be purged away according to the writing on the other side.
- New King James Version - Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: ‘Every thief shall be expelled,’ according to this side of the scroll; and, ‘Every perjurer shall be expelled,’ according to that side of it.”
- Amplified Bible - Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of the whole land; for everyone who steals will be cut off according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears [oaths falsely] shall be cut off according to the writing on the other side.
- American Standard Version - Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off on the one side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off on the other side according to it.
- King James Version - Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
- New English Translation - The speaker went on to say, “This is a curse traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals will be removed from the community; or on the other hand (according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.”
- World English Bible - Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
- 新標點和合本 - 他對我說:「這是發出行在遍地上的咒詛。凡偷竊的必按卷上這面的話除滅;凡起假誓的必按卷上那面的話除滅。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 他對我說:「這就是向全地面發出的詛咒。凡偷竊的必按書卷這面的話除滅,凡起假誓的必按書卷那面的話除滅。
- 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 他對我說:「這就是向全地面發出的詛咒。凡偷竊的必按書卷這面的話除滅,凡起假誓的必按書卷那面的話除滅。
- 當代譯本 - 他說:「這是臨到全天下的咒詛,因為書卷一面寫著『凡偷盜的必被清除』,另一面寫著『凡起假誓的必被清除』。」
- 聖經新譯本 - 他對我說:“這是向全地發出的咒詛:凡偷盜的必照著書卷這面所寫的被清除;凡起假誓的必照著那面所記的被清除。
- 呂振中譯本 - 他對我說:『這是發出的咒詛、行於全地上的:凡偷竊的必按卷上這面的話被清除;凡 奉我名 起 假 誓的必按卷上那面的話被清除。
- 中文標準譯本 - 他對我說:「這是向整個地面發出的詛咒。凡偷竊的都必照著書卷這一面上的話被清除,凡起假誓的都必照著書卷另一面上的話被清除。
- 現代標點和合本 - 他對我說:「這是發出行在遍地上的咒詛,凡偷竊的必按卷上這面的話除滅,凡起假誓的必按卷上那面的話除滅。
- 文理和合譯本 - 彼曰、此乃呪詛、遍行斯土、凡盜竊者、必按卷此面之文而見絕、凡妄誓者、必按卷彼面之文而見絕、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 天使曰、此咒詛之詞、遍行天下、凡盜竊者、必殲滅於左、凡妄誓者、必殲滅於右、俱循此言。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 彼曰、此 載 咒詛 咒詛或作降災 之詞、遍行天下、凡盜竊者、必循卷此面之言被除、凡妄誓者、必循卷彼面之言被除、 凡盜竊者必循卷此面之言被除凡妄誓者必循卷彼面之言被除或作凡盜竊者必循此卷見除於此凡妄誓者必循此卷見除於彼
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Entonces el ángel me dijo: «Esta es la maldición que caerá sobre todo el país. Según lo escrito en el rollo, alcanzará tanto al ladrón como al perjuro.
- 현대인의 성경 - “거기에는 온 세상을 휩쓸 저주가 기록되어 있다. 한쪽에는 도둑질하는 자들이 모두 제거될 것이라고 기록되어 있고 또 한쪽에는 모든 거짓 맹세하는 자들이 제거될 것이라고 기록되어 있다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Он сказал мне: – Это проклятие, которое надвигается на всю землю. Как написано на одной стороне, всякий вор будет искоренен, и как написано на другой, будет искоренен всякий, нарушающий клятву.
- Восточный перевод - Он сказал мне: – Это проклятие, которое надвигается на всю землю. Как написано на одной стороне, всякий вор будет искоренён, и как написано на другой, будет искоренён всякий, нарушающий клятву.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Он сказал мне: – Это проклятие, которое надвигается на всю землю. Как написано на одной стороне, всякий вор будет искоренён, и как написано на другой, будет искоренён всякий, нарушающий клятву.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Он сказал мне: – Это проклятие, которое надвигается на всю землю. Как написано на одной стороне, всякий вор будет искоренён, и как написано на другой, будет искоренён всякий, нарушающий клятву.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Alors il me dit : Ce rouleau représente la malédiction divine qui se répand sur tout le pays. Sur l’une de ses faces, il est écrit que tout voleur sera chassé d’ici, et sur l’autre, que tous ceux qui prononcent de faux serments seront chassés d’ici.
- リビングバイブル - 「巻物は、全地に及ぶ神ののろいのことばを示している。盗みをしたり、うそをついたりする者はみなさばかれ、死刑の宣告を受けたと書いてある。」
- Nova Versão Internacional - Então ele me disse: “Nele está escrita a maldição que está sendo derramada sobre toda a terra, porque tanto o ladrão como o que jura falsamente serão expulsos, conforme essa maldição.
- Hoffnung für alle - Da sagte er zu mir: »Auf dieser Rolle steht ein Fluch, der über das ganze Land hinausgehen wird. Bisher sind alle ungestraft geblieben, die gestohlen oder Meineide geschworen haben. Doch das hat jetzt ein Ende!
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Thiên sứ nói: “Sách này chứa lời nguyền rủa, bay ra khắp mặt đất. Vì chiếu theo sách ấy, ai trộm cắp phải bị xử tử, ai thề dối cũng bị xử tử.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - แล้วทูตนั้นบอกข้าพเจ้าว่า “นี่เป็นคำสาปแช่งซึ่งไปทั่วดินแดน ตามที่มีข้อความระบุไว้ด้านหนึ่งว่าขโมยทุกคนจะถูกขับไล่ออกไป และอีกด้านหนึ่งระบุว่าทุกคนที่สาบานเท็จจะถูกขับไล่ออกไปด้วย
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ท่านพูดกับข้าพเจ้าว่า “นี่คือคำสาปแช่งที่ออกไปทั่วแผ่นดินโลก เพราะทุกคนที่ลักขโมยจะถูกกำจัดให้สิ้นไป ตามที่เขียนไว้บนด้านหนึ่ง และทุกคนที่ให้คำสาบานเท็จจะถูกกำจัดให้สิ้นไป ตามที่เขียนไว้อีกด้านหนึ่ง”
Cross Reference
- Deuteronomy 28:15 - “But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:
- Deuteronomy 28:16 - You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
- Deuteronomy 28:17 - Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
- Deuteronomy 28:18 - Your offspring will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.
- Deuteronomy 28:19 - You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
- Deuteronomy 28:20 - The Lord will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.
- Deuteronomy 28:21 - The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:22 - The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:23 - The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- Deuteronomy 28:24 - The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 - The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:26 - Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
- Deuteronomy 28:27 - “The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.
- Deuteronomy 28:28 - The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,
- Deuteronomy 28:29 - so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.
- Deuteronomy 28:30 - You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.
- Deuteronomy 28:31 - Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.
- Deuteronomy 28:32 - Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.
- Deuteronomy 28:33 - A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.
- Deuteronomy 28:34 - You will be driven mad by what you see.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 - The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs — from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
- Deuteronomy 28:36 - “The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 28:37 - You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.
- Deuteronomy 28:38 - “You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.
- Deuteronomy 28:39 - You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
- Deuteronomy 28:40 - You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not moisten your skin with oil, because your olives will drop off.
- Deuteronomy 28:41 - You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.
- Deuteronomy 28:42 - Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.
- Deuteronomy 28:43 - The resident alien among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.
- Deuteronomy 28:44 - He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
- Deuteronomy 28:45 - “All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes he gave you.
- Deuteronomy 28:46 - These curses will be a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.
- Deuteronomy 28:47 - Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,
- Deuteronomy 28:48 - you will serve your enemies that the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:49 - The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you won’t understand,
- Deuteronomy 28:50 - a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.
- Deuteronomy 28:51 - They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, fresh oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 - They will besiege you within all your city gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
- Deuteronomy 28:53 - “You will eat your offspring, the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.
- Deuteronomy 28:54 - The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,
- Deuteronomy 28:55 - refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.
- Deuteronomy 28:56 - The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,
- Deuteronomy 28:57 - the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.
- Deuteronomy 28:58 - “If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awe-inspiring name — the Lord, your God —
- Deuteronomy 28:59 - he will bring wondrous plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
- Deuteronomy 28:60 - He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.
- Deuteronomy 28:61 - The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:62 - Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.
- Deuteronomy 28:63 - Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so he will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be ripped out of the land you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:64 - Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
- Deuteronomy 28:65 - You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit.
- Deuteronomy 28:66 - Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival.
- Deuteronomy 28:67 - In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ — because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.
- Deuteronomy 28:68 - The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
- 1 Corinthians 6:7 - As it is, to have legal disputes against one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
- 1 Corinthians 6:8 - Instead, you yourselves do wrong and cheat — and you do this to brothers and sisters!
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 - Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males,
- Jeremiah 23:10 - For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up. Their way of life has become evil, and their power is not rightly used
- Hebrews 6:6 - and who have fallen away. This is because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding him up to contempt.
- Hebrews 6:7 - For the ground that drinks the rain that often falls on it and that produces vegetation useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.
- Hebrews 6:8 - But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and at the end will be burned.
- Proverbs 30:9 - Otherwise, I might have too much and deny you, saying, “Who is the Lord?” or I might have nothing and steal, profaning the name of my God.
- Jeremiah 7:9 - “‘Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?
- Revelation 21:8 - But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars — their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
- Proverbs 29:24 - To be a thief’s partner is to hate oneself; he hears the curse but will not testify.
- Ephesians 4:28 - Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.
- Matthew 25:41 - “Then he will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!
- Malachi 3:8 - “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me!” “How do we rob you?” you ask. “By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.
- Malachi 3:9 - You are suffering under a curse, yet you — the whole nation — are still robbing me.
- Malachi 3:10 - Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,” says the Lord of Armies. “See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.
- Ezekiel 17:13 - He took one of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he took away the leading men of the land,
- Ezekiel 17:14 - so that the kingdom would be humble and not exalt itself but would keep his covenant in order to endure.
- Ezekiel 17:15 - However, this king revolted against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt so they might give him horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and still escape?
- Ezekiel 17:16 - “‘As I live — this is the declaration of the Lord God — he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.
- Hosea 4:2 - Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- 1 Timothy 1:9 - We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,
- James 5:4 - Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies.
- Deuteronomy 27:15 - ‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’ And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:16 - ‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:17 - ‘The one who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker is cursed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:18 - ‘The one who leads a blind person astray on the road is cursed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:19 - ‘The one who denies justice to a resident alien, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:20 - ‘The one who sleeps with his father’s wife is cursed, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:21 - ‘The one who has sexual intercourse with any animal is cursed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:22 - ‘The one who sleeps with his sister, whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter is cursed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:23 - ‘The one who sleeps with his mother-in-law is cursed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:24 - ‘The one who secretly kills his neighbor is cursed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:25 - ‘The one who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person is cursed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:26 - ‘Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.’ And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Luke 21:35 - like a trap. For it will come on all who live on the face of the whole earth.
- Deuteronomy 11:28 - and a curse, if you do not obey the commands of the Lord your God and you turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods you have not known.
- Deuteronomy 11:29 - When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.
- Proverbs 3:33 - The Lord’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous;
- Revelation 22:15 - Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Zechariah 8:17 - Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all this” — this is the Lord’s declaration.
- Matthew 5:33 - “Again, you have heard that it was said to our ancestors, You must not break your oath, but you must keep your oaths to the Lord.
- Matthew 5:34 - But I tell you, don’t take an oath at all: either by heaven, because it is God’s throne;
- Matthew 5:35 - or by the earth, because it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.
- Matthew 5:36 - Do not swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.
- Matthew 5:37 - But let your ‘yes’ mean ‘yes,’ and your ‘no’ mean ‘no.’ Anything more than this is from the evil one.
- Malachi 3:5 - “I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident alien. They do not fear me,” says the Lord of Armies.
- Psalms 109:17 - He loved cursing — let it fall on him; he took no delight in blessing — let it be far from him.
- Psalms 109:18 - He wore cursing like his coat — let it enter his body like water and go into his bones like oil.
- Psalms 109:19 - Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself, like a belt he always wears.
- Psalms 109:20 - Let this be the Lord’s payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.
- Galatians 3:10 - For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, Everyone who does not do everything written in the book of the law is cursed.
- Galatians 3:11 - Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.
- Galatians 3:12 - But the law is not based on faith; instead, the one who does these things will live by them.
- Galatians 3:13 - Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.
- Daniel 9:11 - All Israel has broken your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. The promised curse written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against him.
- Deuteronomy 29:19 - When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.
- Deuteronomy 29:20 - The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,
- Deuteronomy 29:21 - and single him out for harm from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
- Deuteronomy 29:22 - “Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it.
- Deuteronomy 29:23 - All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.
- Deuteronomy 29:24 - All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this intense outburst of anger?’
- Deuteronomy 29:25 - Then people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 29:26 - They began to serve other gods, bowing in worship to gods they had not known — gods that the Lord had not permitted them to worship.
- Deuteronomy 29:27 - Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, and he brought every curse written in this book on it.
- Deuteronomy 29:28 - The Lord uprooted them from their land in his anger, rage, and intense wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’
- Matthew 23:16 - “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the temple, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gold of the temple is bound by his oath.’
- Matthew 23:17 - Blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold?
- Matthew 23:18 - Also, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it means nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gift that is on it is bound by his oath.’
- Matthew 23:19 - Blind people! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
- Matthew 23:20 - Therefore, the one who takes an oath by the altar takes an oath by it and by everything on it.
- Matthew 23:21 - The one who takes an oath by the temple takes an oath by it and by him who dwells in it.
- Matthew 23:22 - And the one who takes an oath by heaven takes an oath by God’s throne and by him who sits on it.
- James 5:12 - Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your “yes” mean “yes,” and your “no” mean “no,” so that you won’t fall under judgment.
- Jeremiah 5:2 - When they say, “As the Lord lives,” they are swearing falsely.
- Leviticus 19:12 - Do not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God; I am the Lord.
- Malachi 4:6 - And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
- Jeremiah 26:6 - I will make this temple like Shiloh. I will make this city an example for cursing for all the nations of the earth.’”
- Zechariah 5:4 - I will send it out,” — this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies — “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.”
- Isaiah 43:28 - So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary, and set Jacob apart for destruction and Israel for scorn.
- Isaiah 48:1 - “Listen to this, house of Jacob — those who are called by the name Israel and have descended from Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and declare the God of Israel, but not in truth or righteousness.
- Isaiah 24:6 - Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants have become guilty; the earth’s inhabitants have been burned, and only a few survive.
- Exodus 20:15 - Do not steal.