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Psalms 37:27

Depart from evil and do good; And you will dwell [securely in the land] forever.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Holiness;   Immortality;   Righteous;   Thompson Chain Reference - Do Good;   Good;   Work, Religious;   Work-Workers, Religious;   Works, Good;   The Topic Concordance - Evil;   Goodness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Estate;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Wealth;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Good;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 20;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Flee from euill and doe good, and dwell for euer.
Christian Standard Bible®
Turn away from evil, do what is good,and settle permanently.
Hebrew Names Version
Depart from evil, and do good; Live securely forever.
Easy-to-Read Version
Stop doing anything evil and do good, and you will always have a place to live.
American Standard Version
Depart from evil, and do good; And dwell for evermore.
Contemporary English Version
If you stop sinning and start doing right, you will keep living and be secure forever.
Complete Jewish Bible
If you turn from evil and do good, you will live safely forever.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
King James Version (1611)
Depart from euill, and doe good; and dwell for euermore.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Turn aside from evil, and do good; and dwell for ever.
English Revised Version
Depart from evil, and do good; dwell for evermore.
Berean Standard Bible
Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.
Lexham English Bible
Turn aside from evil and do good and so abide forever.
Literal Translation
Turn away from evil and do good and live forever.
New Century Version
Stop doing evil and do good, so you will live forever.
New English Translation
Turn away from evil! Do what is right! Then you will enjoy lasting security.
New King James Version
Depart from evil, and do good; And dwell forevermore.
New Living Translation
Turn from evil and do good, and you will live in the land forever.
New Life Bible
Turn from sin, and do good, so you will live forever.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Turn from evil, and do good, and so settle down, unto times age-abiding.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(36-27) Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever.
George Lamsa Translation
Depart from evil, and do good; and rest for evermore.
Good News Translation
Turn away from evil and do good, and your descendants will always live in the land;
New American Standard Bible
Turn from evil and do good, So that you will dwell forever.
King James Version
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Flee from euill & do good: and dwell for euer.
New Revised Standard
Depart from evil, and do good; so you shall abide forever.
Darby Translation
Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell for evermore;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bouwe thou awei fro yuel, and do good; and dwelle thou in to the world of world.
Young's Literal Translation
Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age.
World English Bible
Depart from evil, and do good; Live securely forever.
Revised Standard Version
Depart from evil, and do good; so shall you abide for ever.
Update Bible Version
Depart from evil, and do good; And dwell for evermore.
Webster's Bible Translation
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
Bible in Basic English
Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fle fro euell, & do ye thinge that is good, so shalt thou dwell for euer.
THE MESSAGE
Turn your back on evil, work for the good and don't quit. God loves this kind of thing, never turns away from his friends. Live this way and you've got it made, but bad eggs will be tossed out. The good get planted on good land and put down healthy roots. Righteous chews on wisdom like a dog on a bone, rolls virtue around on his tongue. His heart pumps God's Word like blood through his veins; his feet are as sure as a cat's. Wicked sets a watch for Righteous, he's out for the kill. God , alert, is also on watch— Wicked won't hurt a hair of his head. Wait passionately for God , don't leave the path. He'll give you your place in the sun while you watch the wicked lose it. I saw Wicked bloated like a toad, croaking pretentious nonsense. The next time I looked there was nothing— a punctured bladder, vapid and limp. Keep your eye on the healthy soul, scrutinize the straight life; There's a future in strenuous wholeness. But the willful will soon be discarded; insolent souls are on a dead-end street. The spacious, free life is from God , it's also protected and safe. God -strengthened, we're delivered from evil— when we run to him, he saves us.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Depart from evil and do good, So you will abide forever.
Legacy Standard Bible
Depart from evil and do good,So you will dwell forever.

Contextual Overview

21The wicked borrows and does not pay back, But the righteous is gracious and kind and gives. 22For those blessed by God will [at last] inherit the land, But those cursed by Him will be cut off. 23The steps of a [good and righteous] man are directed and established by the LORD, And He delights in his way [and blesses his path]. 24When he falls, he will not be hurled down, Because the LORD is the One who holds his hand and sustains him. 25I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned Or his descendants pleading for bread. 26All day long he is gracious and lends, And his descendants are a blessing. 27Depart from evil and do good; And you will dwell [securely in the land] forever.28For the LORD delights in justice And does not abandon His saints (faithful ones); They are preserved forever, But the descendants of the wicked will [in time] be cut off. 29The righteous will inherit the land And live in it forever. 30The mouth of the righteous proclaims wisdom, And his tongue speaks justice and truth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Depart: Psalms 34:14, Job 28:28, Proverbs 16:6, Proverbs 16:17, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 1:17, 2 Timothy 2:19, Titus 2:11-14

do good: Psalms 37:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:15, Titus 3:8, Titus 3:14, Hebrews 13:16, Hebrews 13:21, 1 John 2:16, 1 John 2:17

Reciprocal: Job 1:8 - escheweth Psalms 18:23 - upright Psalms 37:29 - General Psalms 97:10 - hate Proverbs 13:19 - depart Isaiah 56:2 - keepeth his Jeremiah 25:5 - for Amos 5:15 - Hate Galatians 6:10 - do good 1 Peter 3:11 - eschew 3 John 1:11 - follow

Cross-References

Genesis 29:14
Then Laban said to him, "You are my bone and my flesh." And Jacob stayed with him a month.
Genesis 37:14
Then Jacob said to him, "Please go and see whether everything is all right with your brothers and all right with the flock; then bring word [back] to me." So he sent him from the Hebron Valley, and he went to Shechem.
Genesis 37:17
Then the man said, "[They were here, but] they have moved on from this place. I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
Genesis 37:22
Reuben said to them, "Do not shed his blood, but [instead] throw him [alive] into the pit that is here in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him [to kill him]"—[he said this so] that he could rescue him from them and return him [safely] to his father.
Genesis 42:21
And they said to one another, "Truly we are guilty regarding our brother [Joseph], because we saw the distress and anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us [to let him go], yet we would not listen [to his cry]; so this distress and anguish has come on us."
Exodus 21:16
"Whoever kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or is found with him in his possession, must be put to death.
Exodus 21:21
"If, however, the servant survives for a day or two, the offender shall not be punished, for the [injured] servant is his own property.
1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Behold I will give you my older daughter Merab as a wife; only be brave for me and fight the LORD'S battles." For Saul thought, "My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him."
2 Samuel 12:9
'Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife. You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Nehemiah 5:8
I said to them, "According to our ability we have redeemed (purchased back) our Jewish brothers who were sold to the [Gentile] nations; now would you even sell your brothers, that they might be sold to us?" Then they were silent and could not find a [single] word to say.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Depart from evil, and do good,.... Depart from evildoers, and their evil ways; join not with them, nor fret and be envious at them; but do acts of beneficence, and all good works; since righteous men, and their seed, are not forsaken, but blessed of God;

:-;

and dwell for evermore; or "thou shalt dwell for evermore" z; see

Psalms 37:3; that is, in everlasting habitations, in the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, Luke 16:9. The Targum is, "that thou mayest dwell in everlasting life".

z ושכן לעולם "et habitabis in seculum", Pagninus, Vatablus, Piscator; so Aben Ezra & Kimchi.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Depart from evil, and do good - This is the sum of all that is said in the psalm; the great lesson inculcated and enforced by all these references to the effects of good and evil conduct. All these results - all that people experience themselves, and all the effects of their conduct on their posterity, enforce the great practical lesson that we should do good and avoid evil. These results of conduct are among the means which God employs to induce men to do right, and to abstain from what is wrong.

And dwell for evermore - That is, dwell in the land: meaning (in accordance with the general drift of the psalm) that righteousness will be connected with length of days and with prosperity; that its effects will be permanent on a family, descending from one generation to another. See the notes at Psalms 37:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 37:27. Depart from evil, and do good — Seeing the above is so, depart from all evil-avoid all sin; and let not this be sufficient, do good. The grace of God ever gives this two-fold power to all who receive it; strength to overcome evil, and strength to do that which is right.

Dwell for evermore. — Be for ever an inhabitant of God's house. This may be also a promise of return to their own land, and of permanent residence there. See Psalms 37:9; Psalms 37:11, &c.


 
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