"God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it."
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If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!
+God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.