Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
and if you refuse my statutes, loathe my ordinances, and fail to carry out all of my commands, thereby breaching my covenant,
New American Standard Bible
if, instead, you
King James Version
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
Holman Bible
if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant,
A Conservative Version
and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
American Standard Version
and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
Amplified
if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul rejects My ordinances, so that you will not [obediently] do all My commandments, and in this way break My covenant,
Bible in Basic English
And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;
Darby Translation
and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant,
Julia Smith Translation
And if ye shall reject my laws. and if your soul shall abhor my judgments so as not to do all my commands, to your breaking my covenant:
King James 2000
And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:
Lexham Expanded Bible
and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self abhors my regulations, to not carry out all my commands [by] your breaking my covenant,
Modern King James verseion
and if you shall despise My statutes, or if your soul hates My judgments, so that you will not do all My commandments, so that you break My covenant;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
or if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but shall break mine covenant:
NET Bible
if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant --
New Heart English Bible
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
The Emphasized Bible
And if, my statutes, ye refuse, And, my regulations, your souls shall abhor, - So that ye will not do all my commandments, But shall break my covenant
Webster
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul shall abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
World English Bible
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
Youngs Literal Translation
and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands -- to your breaking My covenant --
Themes
Chastisement » Who the lord chastens
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Disease » Sent as a judgment » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
Disobedience to God » Denunciations against
Judgments » Are sent, as punishment for » Disobedience to God
Judgments » Denounced against disobedience
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Protection » Withdrawn from the » Disobedient
Punishment » Design of » To secure obedience
Rebellion against God » Punishment for
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
Sickness » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
Sickness » Often sent as a punishment of sin
Interlinear
Ma'ac
Nephesh
Mishpat
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 26:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Punishment For Disobedience
14 "But if you won't listen to me and obey all these commands, 15 and if you refuse my statutes, loathe my ordinances, and fail to carry out all of my commands, thereby breaching my covenant, 16 then I will certainly do this to you: I'll appoint sudden terror to infect you like tuberculosis and fever. Your eyes will fail and your life will waste away. You'll plant in vain, because your enemies will consume what you plant.
Cross References
2 Kings 17:15
They rejected the LORD's statutes, the covenant that he had made with their ancestors, and his warnings that he gave them. They pursued meaninglessness and became meaningless themselves as they followed the lifestyles of the nations that surrounded them, a practice that the LORD had warned them not to do.
Genesis 17:14
Any uncircumcised male who does not have the foreskin of his flesh circumcised on the eighth day after his birth is to be eliminated from his people because he has broken my covenant."
Exodus 19:5
And now if you carefully obey me and keep my covenant, you are to be my special possession out of all the nations, because the whole earth belongs to me,
Exodus 24:7
He took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They said, "We will put into practice and obey everything that the LORD has decreed."
Leviticus 26:43
They will leave the land so it can rest while it lies desolate without them. That's when they'll receive the punishment of their iniquity, because indeed they will have rejected my ordinances and despised my statutes.
Numbers 15:31
Because he has despised the law of the LORD and has broken his commands, that person is certainly to be eliminated. His iniquity will remain on him."
Deuteronomy 31:16
Then the LORD told Moses, "Look! You are about to join your ancestors. Afterwards, this people will rebel and commit prostitution with the foreign gods of the land that they are about to enter to possess. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I made with them.
2 Samuel 12:9-10
""Why did you despise what the LORD has promised by doing what is detestable in his sight? ""You struck down Uriah the Hittite with a battle sword. ""You took his wife to be your own. ""You killed him with the sword of the Ammonite army.
2 Chronicles 36:16
but they mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until there was no remedy for the wrath of the LORD that arose to punish his people.
Psalm 50:17
You hate instruction and toss my words behind you.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:30
they did not want my advice, and they rejected all my correction.
Proverbs 5:12
and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction!
Isaiah 24:5
The earth lies defiled beneath its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 6:19
Listen, earth! I'm about to bring calamity on this people, on the fruit of their plans, because they didn't listen to my words and they rejected my instruction.
Jeremiah 11:10
They have turned back to the iniquities of their ancestors of old who refused to listen to my words. They followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke my covenant which I made with their ancestors."
Jeremiah 31:32
It won't be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. They broke my covenant, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:59
"since the Lord GOD says, "I'll deal with you according to what you've done, when you despised your oath by breaking the covenant.
Zechariah 7:11-13
But they refused to pay attention, turned their backs, and stopped listening.
Acts 13:41
"Look, you mockers! Be amazed and die! Since I am performing an action in your days, one that you would not believe even if someone told you!'"
Romans 8:7
That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore, whoever rejects this instruction is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 8:9
It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors at the time when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant, I ignored them, declares the Lord.