New Revised Standard Version
Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Contemporary English Version
You are in for trouble if you sin, but you will be rewarded if you live right.

New American Bible
Misfortune pursues sinners, but the just shall be recompensed with good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Evil pursueth sinners: and to the just good shall be repaid.

Evil pursueth sinners: and to the just good shall be repaid.

pursueth

Genesis 4:7 If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin forthwith be present at the door? but the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.

Numbers 32:23 But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin against God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you.

Psalm 32:10 Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the Lord.

Psalm 140:11 A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.

righteous is

Proverbs 3:10,11 My son, reject not the correction of the Lord: and do not faint when thou art chastised by him: . . .

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Romans 2:7-10 To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life: . . .

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