For surely there is a hereafter, And your hope will not be cut off.
Parallel translations
- WEB Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
- KJV For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
- BSB For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
- NASB Certainly there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off.
- NLT You will be rewarded for this; your hope will not be disappointed.
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Quick answer
There is a sure future and a hope for the righteous that will not be cut off.
Overview
This grounds the call not to envy sinners: the godly have a guaranteed future that the wicked lack. "Hope will not be cut off" assures that fearing God leads to a secure end. For the believer this hope is anchored in Christ and the resurrection, an inheritance kept in heaven that cannot perish (1 Pet. 1:3-4).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Heb 10:35Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
- Jer 29:11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
- Ps 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
- Phil 1:20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
- Prov 24:14so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.
- Prov 24:20for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
- Rom 6:21–22What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
- Ps 37:37Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
- Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
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