Proverbs 11:31 “If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly…”

Proverbs 11:31

If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

World English Bible

Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

American Standard Version

Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth; How much more the wicked and the sinner!

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, the righteous shalbe recompensed in the earth: howe much more the wicked and the sinner?

Darby Translation

Behold, the righteous shall be requited on the earth: how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!

Bible in Basic English

If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

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Cross references

“Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.”

Jeremiah 25:29 1 Corinthians 11:30–32 2 Samuel 12:9–12 1 Kings 13:24 2 Samuel 7:14 2 Samuel 7:15

Jeremiah 25:29 · BSB

For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, decla…

1 Corinthians 11:30–32 · BSB

That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

2 Samuel 12:9–12 · BSB

Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

1 Kings 13:24 · BSB

As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

2 Samuel 7:14 · BSB

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

2 Samuel 7:15 · BSB

But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

Also

Proverbs 13:21

Proverbs 13:21 · BSB

Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.

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