Numbers 15:31

WEB

³¹Because he has despised the LORD’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’”

KJV

³¹Because he hath despised^[+] the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

BSB

³¹He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

FBV

³¹They have to be expelled, because they have treated the word of the Lord with contempt and broken his commandment. They are responsible for the consequences of their own guilt.’”

Extra References

2 Samuel 12:9

⁹Why have you despised the LORD’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Proverbs 13:13

¹³Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

Ezekiel 18:20

²⁰The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Leviticus 5:1

¹“‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

⁸Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

Psalms 119:126

¹²⁶It is time to act, LORD, for they break your law.

Psalms 38:4

⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

2 Peter 2:21

²¹For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

1 Peter 2:24

²⁴He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

Hebrews 10:28-29

²⁸A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. ²⁹How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?