Quotes about Consequences

Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.

When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,

So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”

If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”

Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’