Quotes about Reckoning
Let the punishment match the offense.
- Cicero
And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
- Genesis 48:5
Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
- Numbers 18:27
For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
- Numbers 23:9
May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
- Psalm 69:22
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
- Psalm 73:18
What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
- Isaiah 10:3
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
- Jeremiah 7:20
Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
- Jeremiah 15:13
Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
- Matthew 5:26
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later.
- Craig Groeschel
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
- JRR Tolkien