Tell the godly that all will be well for them. They will enjoy the rich reward they have earned!
Parallel translations
- WEB Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
- KJV Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- BSB Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
- NKJV “Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- NASB Say to the righteous that it will go well for them, For they will eat the fruit of their actions.
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Quick answer
The righteous are assured it will be well, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Amid judgment, God distinguishes and blesses the righteous.
Overview
In contrast to the surrounding doom, God promises good to the righteous. This reflects the biblical principle that one reaps what one sows (Galatians 6:7-8). It offers hope that God remembers the faithful even in times of national judgment, ultimately securing their reward in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 128:1–2A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
- Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
- Gal 6:7–8Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
- Eccl 8:12Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
- Ezek 18:9–19has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Deut 28:1–14It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Ps 18:23–24I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
- Mal 3:18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
- Jer 15:11Yahweh said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
- Isa 26:20–21Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
- Zeph 2:3Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
- Rom 2:5–11But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
- Ezek 9:4Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
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