The righteous died at younger age but the unrighteous are hard to fall. I often heard this saying when I was still young from folks in our locality that one survived in an accident because he is a bad guy and one did not because he is good & kind - with matching shaking of the head.But reading the Scriptures proved otherwise.
Proverbs 24:16 For a righteous man may fall seven times And rise again, But the wicked shall fall by calamity.
Certainly, people judged on the outside of a man compared to God who search the heart and mind of every man.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 “ The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.
Knowing therefore that for being righteous, one may fall seven times and rise again, can we not persevere to become such & not fall by calamity?

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