Bible Verses About Sin: Encouraged in, by prosperity

"Why do the wicked go on living, grow old and keep increasing their power?

They see their children settled with them, their posterity assured.

Their houses are safe, with nothing to fear; God's rod is not on them.

Their bulls are fertile without fail, their cows get pregnant and don't miscarry.

They produce flocks of babies, and their children dance around.

They sing with tambourines and lyres and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

They spend their days in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

"Yet to God they said, 'Leave us alone! We don't want to know about your ways.

What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?'

The activity of the righteous is for life; the income of the wicked is for sin.