"Since when," Amaziah interrupted, "have we made you adviser to the king? Stop talking, or I'll have you killed!" The prophet stopped, but not before saying, "Now I know that God has decided to destroy you because you have done all this and have ignored my advice."

If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.

Then the LORD appointed sentries to listen for the trumpet's warning. But they said, "We will not listen."

that you are making a fatal mistake. You asked me to pray to the LORD our God for you, and you promised that you would do everything that he commands.

So then, remember this: you will die in war or of starvation or disease in the land where you want to go and live."

The LORD Almighty told Zechariah to say to the people, "I, the LORD, was very angry with your ancestors,

Do not be like your ancestors. Long ago the prophets gave them my message, telling them not to live evil, sinful lives any longer. But they would not listen to me or obey me.

Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice.

His death is his own fault, because he paid no attention to the warning. If he had paid attention, he could have escaped.

If you do warn an evil person and he doesn't stop sinning, he will die, still a sinner, but your life will be spared."

and lends money for profit. Will he live? No, he will not. He has done all these disgusting things, and so he will die. He will be to blame for his own death.

The LORD gave the following regulations. Any of you that curse your father or mother shall be put to death; you are responsible for your own death.

A man who has intercourse with one of his father's wives disgraces his father, and both he and the woman shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.

If a man has sexual relations with another man, they have done a disgusting thing, and both shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.

If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he and the animal shall be put to death.

If a man marries his sister or half sister, they shall be publicly disgraced and driven out of the community. He has had intercourse with his sister and must suffer the consequences.

If a man has intercourse with his aunt, both of them must suffer the consequences for incest.

If a man takes his brother's wife, they will die childless. He has done a ritually unclean thing and has disgraced his brother.

Do not adopt the customs of the people who live there; I am driving out those pagans so that you can enter the land. They have disgusted me with all their evil practices.

So then, you must make a clear distinction between animals and birds that are ritually clean and those that are not. Do not eat unclean animals or birds. I have declared them unclean, and eating them would make you unclean.

"Any man or woman who consults the spirits of the dead shall be stoned to death; any of you that do this are responsible for your own death."

and David said to the Amalekite, "You brought this on yourself. You condemned yourself when you confessed that you killed the one whom the LORD chose to be king."

If you ever leave and go beyond Kidron Brook, you will certainly die---and you yourself will be to blame."

When they opposed him and said evil things about him, he protested by shaking the dust from his clothes and saying to them, "If you are lost, you yourselves must take the blame for it! I am not responsible. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

So I solemnly declare to you this very day: if any of you should be lost, I am not responsible.