¹² Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and ^(A)prolongs his life, yet I know that ^(B)it will be well with ^(C)those who fear God, because they fear before him. ¹³ But it will ^(D)not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like ^(E)a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

^40 (A)Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, ^(B)that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

⁵ But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are ^(A)storing up ^(B)wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

^6 (C)He will render to each one according to his works: ⁷ to those who ^(D)by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; ⁸ but for those who are self-seeking^[a] and ^(E)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. ⁹ There will be tribulation and distress ^(F)for every human being who does evil, the Jew ^(G)first and also the Greek,