Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, New Living Translation and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands, English Standard Version if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, Berean Standard Bible and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, King James Bible 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: New King James Version and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, New American Standard Bible if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, but rather to break My covenant, NASB 1995 if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, NASB 1977 if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, Legacy Standard Bible if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments so as not to do all My commandments and so break My covenant, Amplified Bible 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, Christian Standard Bible if you reject my statutes and despise my ordinances, and do not observe all my commands—and break my covenant, Holman Christian Standard Bible if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and 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; English Revised Version and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant; GOD'S WORD® Translation if you reject my laws and look at my rules with disgust, if you reject my promise by disobeying my commands, Good News Translation If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you, 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, Majority Standard Bible and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My 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; Webster's Bible Translation 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, Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand if you kick at My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments, so as not to do all My commands—to your breaking My covenant— Young's 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 -- Smith's Literal 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: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleIf you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant: Catholic Public Domain Version if you despise my laws, and disdain my judgments, so that you do not accomplish those things which have been established by me, and so that you lead my covenant away into nullification, New American Bible if you reject my statutes and loathe my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant, New Revised Standard Version if you spurn my statutes, and abhor my ordinances, so that you will not observe all my commandments, and you break my covenant, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd if you despise my laws, or if your soul abhor my judgments so that you will not do all my commandments, and make my covenant of no effect; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated If you will reject my Law and your souls will loathe my judgments and you will not do all of my commands and you shall nullify my covenant: OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917and 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; Brenton Septuagint Translation but disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that ye should not keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Punishments for Disobedience14If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, 15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, 16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.… Cross References Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: Deuteronomy 28:45 All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you. Deuteronomy 31:16-17 And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them. / On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’ Jeremiah 11:10-11 They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers. / Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them. Jeremiah 7:23-24 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. / Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. Ezekiel 20:13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness. Ezekiel 20:21 But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness. 2 Kings 17:13-14 Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.” / But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God. Nehemiah 9:26-27 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies. / So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies. Isaiah 1:19-20 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land. / But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. Isaiah 30:9-11 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction. / They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions. / Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!” Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. Zechariah 7:11-12 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. / They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts. Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Treasury of Scripture And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant: despise Leviticus 26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. Numbers 15:31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him. 2 Samuel 12:9,10 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon… soul Psalm 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. Proverbs 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. break Genesis 17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: Exodus 24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. Jump to Previous Abhor Abhors Break Breaking Carry Commandments Commands Covenant Decisions Decrees Despise Fail Hate Instead Judgments Kick Laws Orders Ordinances Reject Rules Soul Souls Spurn Statutes ViolateJump to Next Abhor Abhors Break Breaking Carry Commandments Commands Covenant Decisions Decrees Despise Fail Hate Instead Judgments Kick Laws Orders Ordinances Reject Rules Soul Souls Spurn Statutes ViolateLeviticus 26 1. Of idolatry2. Reverence 3. A blessing to those who keep the commandments 14. A curse to those who break them 40. God promises to remember those who repent reject My statutes The Hebrew word for "reject" is "ma'as," which conveys a sense of despising or refusing. In the context of ancient Israel, statutes ("chuqqim") were divine decrees given by God to guide His people in holiness and righteousness. To reject these statutes was not merely a passive act of disobedience but an active refusal to acknowledge God's authority and wisdom. Historically, this rejection often led to Israel's downfall, as they turned to idolatry and the practices of surrounding nations, forsaking the unique identity God had given them. despise My ordinances fail to carry out all My commandments break My covenant Or if your soul abhor my judgments.--Better, and if your soul, &c, as the picture of their Apostasy goes on developing itself. But that ye break my covenant.--Better, that ye break, &c, without the "but," which is not in the original, and obscures the sense of the passage, since it is the fact of their abhorrence of God's law which breaks the Divine covenant with them. (See Genesis 17:14.) The sense is more correctly given by rendering this clause "Thus breaking my covenant," or "Thereby breaking my covenant." Hebrew and ifוְאִם־ (wə·’im-) Conjunctive waw | Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not you reject תִּמְאָ֔סוּ (tim·’ā·sū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 3988: To spurn, to disappear My statutes, בְּחֻקֹּתַ֣י (bə·ḥuq·qō·ṯay) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 2708: Something prescribed, an enactment, statute despise תִּגְעַ֣ל (tiḡ·‘al) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 1602: To detest, to reject My ordinances, מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י (miš·pā·ṭay) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style and neglect לְבִלְתִּ֤י (lə·ḇil·tî) Preposition-l Strong's 1115: A failure of, not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until to carry out עֲשׂוֹת֙ (‘ă·śō·wṯ) Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 6213: To do, make all כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every My commandments, מִצְוֺתַ֔י (miṣ·wō·ṯay) Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 4687: Commandment and so break לְהַפְרְכֶ֖ם (lə·hap̄·rə·ḵem) Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 6565: To break up, to violate, frustrate My covenant, בְּרִיתִֽי׃ (bə·rî·ṯî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1285: A covenant Links Leviticus 26:15 NIVLeviticus 26:15 NLT Leviticus 26:15 ESV Leviticus 26:15 NASB Leviticus 26:15 KJV Leviticus 26:15 BibleApps.com Leviticus 26:15 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 26:15 Chinese Bible Leviticus 26:15 French Bible Leviticus 26:15 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 26:15 And if you shall reject my statutes (Le Lv Lev.) |
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