Ecclesiastes 8:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.

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  • Ps 37:11 : 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
  • Ps 37:18-19 : 18 The LORD knows the days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be forever. 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
  • Eccl 7:15 : 15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given to him.
  • Prov 1:32-33 : 32 For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will destroy them. 33 But whoever listens to me will live safely, and will be at ease from fear of evil.
  • Eccl 3:14 : 14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.
  • Isa 65:20-24 : 20 No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. 21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 23 They shall not labor in vain nor bear children for calamity; for they are the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. 24 It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 Then the King will say to those on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction:
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • Matt 25:41-46 : 41 Then he will also say to those on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink. 43 I was a stranger and you did not take me in; naked and you did not clothe me; sick and in prison and you did not visit me. 44 Then they also will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you? 45 Then he will answer them, saying, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me. 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
  • Luke 1:50 : 50 And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
  • Eccl 5:16 : 16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?
  • Prov 13:21 : 21 Evil pursues sinners, but to the righteous good shall be repaid.
  • Isa 65:13-14 : 13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed; 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and wail for vexation of spirit.
  • Eccl 7:18 : 18 It is good that you should take hold of this, and also from this do not withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will escape them all.
  • Ps 96:9 : 9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
  • Ps 115:13 : 13 He will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great.
  • Deut 12:25 : 25 You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5-9 : 5 Moreover, you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his belt that was about his loins, and in his shoes on his feet. 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace. 7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those that eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom your brother. 8 And behold, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword. 9 Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but bring his gray head down to the grave with blood.
  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
  • 1 Kgs 22:34-35 : 34 And a certain man drew a bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am wounded. 35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was propped up in his chariot against the Syrians, and he died at evening: and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
  • 1 Chr 16:30 : 30 Fear before him, all the earth; the world also shall be established, that it not be moved.

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