That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Thou mayest live (literally, thou shalt: a lasting and sure effect of obedience) long on the earth. In Exodus 20:12, "long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee," which Paul adapts to Gospel times by taking away the local reference to Canaan. The godly are equally blessed in every land, as the Jews were in the land which God gave them. This promise is always fulfilled, either literally or by a higher blessing-namely, one spiritual and eternal (Job 5:26; Proverbs 10:27). The essence of the law is eternally in force; its accidents alone (applying to Israel) are abolished (Romans 6:15).