Ecclesiastes 8:12

New English Translation

Even though a sinner might commit a hundred crimes and still live a long time, yet I know that it will go well with God-fearing people – for they stand in fear before him.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:25

(There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel.

1 Chronicles 16:30

Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is established, it cannot be moved.

Job 35:15

And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression!

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! How blessed is the one who obeys the Lord, who takes great delight in keeping his commands.

Psalm 115:13

He will bless his loyal followers, both young and old.

Psalm 128:2

You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

Psalm 37:11

But the oppressed will possess the land and enjoy great prosperity.

Psalm 96:9

Worship the Lord in holy attire! Tremble before him, all the earth!

Exodus 1:20

So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

Proverbs 13:21

Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Proverbs 28:14

Blessed is the one who is always cautious, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into evil.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I also know that whatever God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it. God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 5:7

Just as there is futility in many dreams, so also in many words. Therefore, fear God!

Ecclesiastes 7:15

During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is best to take hold of one warning without letting go of the other warning; for the one who fears God will follow both warnings.

Jeremiah 44:10

To this day your people have shown no contrition! They have not revered me nor followed the laws and statutes I commanded you and your ancestors.’

Matthew 25:34

Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Luke 1:50

from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear him.

Romans 2:5

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

Romans 9:22

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

Deuteronomy 12:25

You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

Deuteronomy 12:28

Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 4:40

Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.

2 Peter 2:9

– if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,