God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same in God's cof...
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1 Corinthians 6:9:
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor practicing homosexuals
(NIV)
Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality
(AMP)
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
(KJV)
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...for [God] makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
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1 Peter 3:18:
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.
(NIV)
For Christ [the Messiah Himself] died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous (the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty), that He might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the spirit
(AMP)
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
(KJV)
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People are divided into two groups - the righteous and the unrighteous - and the righteous do the dividing.
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Acts 24:15:
And I have the same hope in God as these people themselves have, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
(NIV)
Having [the same] hope in God which these themselves hold and look for, that there is to be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous (the just and the unjust).
(AMP)
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
(KJV)
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No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
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