Ecclesiastes 8:12

Good News Translation

A sinner may commit a hundred crimes and still live. Oh yes, I know what they say: “If you obey God, everything will be all right,

Cross References

1 Kings 21:25

There was no one else who had devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in the Lord's sight as Ahab—all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.

1 Chronicles 16:30

tremble before him, all the earth! The earth is set firmly in place and cannot be moved.

Job 35:15

You think that God does not punish, that he pays little attention to sin.

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! Happy is the person who honors the Lord, who takes pleasure in obeying his commands.

Psalm 115:13

He will bless everyone who honors him, the great and the small alike.

Psalm 128:2

Your work will provide for your needs; you will be happy and prosperous.

Psalm 37:11

but the humble will possess the land and enjoy prosperity and peace.

Psalm 96:9

Bow down before the Holy One when he appears; tremble before him, all the earth!

Exodus 1:20

Because the midwives were God-fearing, God was good to them and gave them families of their own. And the Israelites continued to increase and become strong.

Proverbs 13:21

Trouble follows sinners everywhere, but righteous people will be rewarded with good things.

Proverbs 28:14

Always obey the Lord and you will be happy. If you are stubborn, you will be ruined.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

After all this, there is only one thing to say: Have reverence for God, and obey his commands, because this is all that we were created for.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that everything God does will last forever. You can't add anything to it or take anything away from it. And one thing God does is to make us stand in awe of him.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

It isn't right! We go just as we came. We labor, trying to catch the wind, and what do we get?

Ecclesiastes 5:7

No matter how much you dream, how much useless work you do, or how much you talk, you must still stand in awe of God.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

My life has been useless, but in it I have seen everything. Some good people may die while others live on, even though they are evil.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

Avoid both extremes. If you have reverence for God, you will be successful anyway.

Jeremiah 44:10

But to this day you have not humbled yourselves. You have not honored me or lived according to all the laws that I gave you and your ancestors.

Matthew 25:34

Then the King will say to the people on his right, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father! Come and possess the kingdom which has been prepared for you ever since the creation of the world.

Luke 1:50

from one generation to another he shows mercy to those who honor him.

Romans 2:5

But you have a hard and stubborn heart, and so you are making your own punishment even greater on the Day when God's anger and righteous judgments will be revealed.

Romans 9:22

And the same is true of what God has done. He wanted to show his anger and to make his power known. But he was very patient in enduring those who were the objects of his anger, who were doomed to destruction.

Deuteronomy 12:25

If you obey this command, the Lord will be pleased, and all will go well for you and your descendants.

Deuteronomy 12:28

Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you, and all will go well for you and your descendants forever, because you will be doing what is right and what pleases the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 4:40

Obey all his laws that I have given you today, and all will go well with you and your descendants. You will continue to live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to be yours forever.”

2 Peter 2:9

And so the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the Day of Judgment,