Ecclesiastes 8:12

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Because an euyll person offendeth an hundred tymes, and God deferreth, geuing hym long life, therefore am I sure that it shall go well with them that feare God, whiche haue hym before their eyes.

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  • Ps 37:11 : 11 But the meeke spirited shall possesse the earth: and shalbe delighted in the aboundaunce of peace.
  • Ps 37:18-19 : 18 God knoweth the dayes of them that be perfect: and their inheritaunce shall endure for euer. 19 They shall not be confounded in the perilous tyme: and in the dayes of dearth they shall haue inough.
  • Eccl 7:15 : 15 All thinges haue I considered in the time of my vanitie: that the iust man perisheth for his righteousnesse sake, & the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse.
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say to the ryghteous that it shall go well with them: for they shall eate the fruite of their owne studies. 11 But wo be vnto the wicked, for it shalbe euyll with hym: for he shalbe rewarded after his owne workes.
  • Prov 1:32-33 : 32 For the turnyng away of the vnwise shall slay them, and the prosperitie of fooles shall destroy them. 33 But whoso hearkeneth vnto me, shal dwell safely, and be sure from any feare of euyll.
  • Eccl 3:14 : 14 I considered also that whatsoeuer God doth, it continueth for euer: And that nothyng can be put vnto it, nor taken from it, & that God doth it to the intent that men shoulde feare hym.
  • Isa 65:20-24 : 20 There shall neither be chylde nor olde man that haue not their full dayes: but when the chylde commeth to an hundred yeres olde it shal dye, and if he that is an hundred yeres of age do wrong, he shalbe cursed. 21 They shall buylde houses and dwell in them, they shall plant vineyardes and eate the fruite of them. 22 They shall not buylde and another possesse, they shall not plant and another eate: but the life of my people shalbe like a tree, and mine elect shall enioy styll the worke of their handes. 23 They shall not labour in vayne, nor beget with trouble: for they are the hye blessed seede of the Lorde, and their fruites with them. 24 And it shalbe, that or euer they call, I shall aunswere them, whyle they are yet but thinking howe to speake, I shal heare them.
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 Then shall the king say vnto them on his right hande: Come ye blessed of my father, inherite the kyngdome, prepared for you from the foundation of the worlde.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But thou after thy stubbernnesse and heart that can not repent, heapest vnto thy selfe wrath, agaynst the daye of wrath and declaration of the righteous iudgement of God:
  • Rom 9:22 : 22 If then, God wyllyng to shewe his wrath, and to make his power knowe, suffred with long patience, the vessels of wrath, ordayned to destruction,
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lorde knoweth howe to delyuer the godly out of temptation, and to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgement for to be punished:
  • Matt 25:41-46 : 41 Then shall he saye vnto them on the left hande: Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire, which is prepared for the deuyll and his angels. 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me no drynke. 43 I was harbourlesse, and ye toke me not in: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: I was sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also aunswere hym, saying: Lorde, when sawe we thee an hungred, or a thirste, or harbourlesse, or naked, or sicke, or in pryson, and did not minister vnto thee? 45 Then shall he aunswere them, saying: Ueryly I say vnto you, in as much as ye dyd it not to one of the least of these, ye dyd it not to me. 46 And these shall go into euerlastyng payne: the ryghteous into lyfe eternall.
  • Luke 1:50 : 50 And his mercy is on them that feare him, from generation to generation.
  • Eccl 5:16 : 16 This is a miserable plague, that he shall go euen as he came away: What helpeth it him then that he hath laboured in the wynde?
  • Prov 13:21 : 21 Mischiefe foloweth vpon sinners: but the righteous shal haue a good reward.
  • Isa 65:13-14 : 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Beholde, my seruauntes shall eate, but ye shall haue hunger: beholde, my seruauntes shall drinke, but ye shall suffer thirst: beholde, my seruauntes shalbe merie, but ye shalbe confounded: 14 Beholde, my seruauntes shall reioyce for very quietnesse of heart: but ye shal crye for sorowe of heart, and complaine for vexation of minde.
  • Eccl 7:18 : 18 It is good for thee to take holde of this, and not to let that go out of thy hande: For he that feareth God, commeth foorth with them all.
  • Ps 96:9 : 9 Worshyp you God in the maiestie of holynesse: be you in dread of his face all that be in the earth.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Prayse ye the Lorde. Blessed is the man that feareth God: he hath great delight in his commaundementes.
  • Ps 115:13 : 13 He wyll blesse those that feare God: the small with the great.
  • Deut 12:25 : 25 Thou shalt not eate it, that it may go well with thee, and with thy chyldren after thee: But thou shalt do that whiche is ryght in the sight of the Lorde.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5-9 : 5 Moreouer, thou wottest howe Ioab the sonne of Zaruia serued me, and what he did to the two captaynes of the hoastes of Israel, vnto Abner the sonne of Ner, and vnto Amasa the sonne of Iether, whom he slue, and shed blood in time of peace (euen as it had ben in warre) & put the blood of warre vpon his girdle that was about his loynes, and in his shoes that were on his feete. 6 Deale with him therefore according to thy wisdome, and bring not his hoore head downe to the graue in peace. 7 But shewe kindnes vnto the sonnes of Barzellai ye Gileadite, that they may eate at thy table: For they came to me whe I fled from Absalom thy brother. 8 And behold, thou hast with thee Semei the sonne of Gera the sonne of Iemini of Bahurim, whiche cursed me with an horrible curse, in the day when I went to Mahanaim: But he came to meete me at Iordane, & I sware to him by the Lord, saying: I wil not slay thee with the sworde. 9 But thou shalt not count him as vngiltie: For thou art a man of wisdome, and knowest what thou oughtest to do vnto him, his hoore head shalt thou bring to the graue with blood.
  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 But there was none lyke Ahab, which dyd euen sell him selfe to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and that because Iezabel his wyfe pricked hym forwarde.
  • 1 Kgs 22:34-35 : 34 And a certayne man drewe a bowe ignorantly, & smote the king of Israel betweene the ribbes and his harnesse: Wherfore he sayd vnto the driuer of his charettes, Turne thy hand, and cary me out of the hoast, for I am hurt. 35 (And the battel encreased that day: and the king stoode still in his charet against the Syrians) and died at euen: And the blood ran out of the wounde into the middes of the charet.
  • 1 Chr 16:30 : 30 Let all the earth feare him: surely the world shalbe stable and not moue.

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