For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”
Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
And you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord did not listen to your voice or give ear to you.
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
“Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”