7 Bible Verses about The Righteous Perishing
Most Relevant Verses
The merciful man of the earth is missing: and there is no one upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt each man his brother with a net.
The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect man is laughed to scorn.
There is another vanity which is done upon the earth: that there are just men, who are recompensed as if they had done according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, who are recompensed as if they had done according to the work of the righteous; I say that this also is vanity.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes for his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his days by his wickedness.
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
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- Perishing (36 instances)
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