As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
Parallel translations
- KJV But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
- BSB But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.
- NKJV But the transgressors shall be destroyed together; The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
- NASB But wrongdoers will altogether be destroyed; The future of the wicked will be eliminated.
- NLT But the rebellious will be destroyed; they have no future.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Prov 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
- Ps 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
- Ps 1:4–6The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
- Ps 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
- Matt 13:49–50So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
- 2 Th 1:8–9giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
- Matt 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Matt 13:30Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
- Ps 73:17Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
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