Leviticus 26:15
Good News Translation
If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you,

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,

New American Bible
if you reject my statutes and loathe my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If 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:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If 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:

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Leviticus 26:43 Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws.

Numbers 15:31 For he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.

2 Samuel 12:9,10 Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. . . .

2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Proverbs 1:7,30 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: . . .

Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.

Zechariah 7:11-13 But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear. . . .

Acts 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

1 Thessalonians 4:8 Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.

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Psalm 50:17 Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

Proverbs 5:12 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?

Romans 8:7 Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be.

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Genesis 17:14 The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

Exodus 19:5 If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.

Exodus 24:7 And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient.

Deuteronomy 31:16 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,

Isaiah 24:5 And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 11:10 They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, who refused to hear my words: so these likewise have gone after strange gods, to serve them: the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have made void my covenant, which I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:59 For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee, as thou hast despised the oath, in breaking the covenant:

Hebrews 8:9 Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

Context
Punishments for Disobedience
14But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments: 15If 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:16I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:9
I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.

Leviticus 26:11
I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you: and my soul shall not cast you off.

1 Samuel 12:15
But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but will rebel against his words, the hand of the Lord shall be upon you, and upon your fathers.

2 Kings 17:15
And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

Leviticus 26:14
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