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Proverbs 15:9

The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abomination;   God Continued...;   Sin;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Pathway of Sin;   Way;   The Topic Concordance - Abomination;   Following;   Hate;   Love;   Righteousness;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Righteousness;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Legalism;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abomination;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Love;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord detests the way of the wicked,but he loves the one who pursues righteousness.
Hebrew Names Version
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, But he loves him who follows after righteousness.
King James Version
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord : but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
English Standard Version
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord , but he loves him who pursues righteousness.
New American Standard Bible
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, But He loves the one who pursues righteousness.
New Century Version
The Lord hates what evil people do, but he loves those who do what is right.
Amplified Bible
The way [of life] of the wicked is hateful and exceedingly offensive to the LORD, But He loves one who pursues righteousness [personal integrity, moral courage and honorable character].
World English Bible
The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But he loves him who follows after righteousness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The way of the wicked is an abomination vnto the Lord: but he loueth him that followeth righteousnes.
Legacy Standard Bible
The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh,But He loves one who pursues righteousness.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD detests the way of the wicked, but He loves those who pursue righteousness.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord is disgusted with all who do wrong, but he loves everyone who does right.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai detests the way of the wicked but loves anyone who pursues righteousness.
Darby Translation
The way of a wicked [man] is an abomination to Jehovah; but him that pursueth righteousness he loveth.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord hates the way evil people live, but he loves those who try to do good.
George Lamsa Translation
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD; but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
Good News Translation
The Lord hates the ways of evil people, but loves those who do what is right.
Lexham English Bible
An abomination of Yahweh is the way of the wicked, but he who pursues righteousness he will love.
Literal Translation
The way of the wicked is hateful to Jehovah, but He loves him who pursues righteousness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The waye of the vngodly is an abhominacio vnto ye LORDE, but who so foloweth righteousnes, him he loueth.
American Standard Version
The way of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; But he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD; but He loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
King James Version (1611)
The way of the wicked is an abomination vnto the Lord: but he loueth him that followeth after righteousnes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The way of the vngodly is an abhomination vnto the Lorde: but who so foloweth righteousnesse, him he loueth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The ways of an ungodly man are an abomination to the Lord; but he loves those that follow after righteousness.
English Revised Version
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The lijf of the vnpitouse man is abhomynacioun to the Lord; he that sueth riytfulnesse, schal be loued of the Lord.
Update Bible Version
The way of the wicked is disgusting to Yahweh; But he loves him that follows after righteousness.
Webster's Bible Translation
The way of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD; but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
New English Translation
The Lord abhors the way of the wicked, but he loves those who pursue righteousness.
New King James Version
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, But He loves him who follows righteousness.
New Living Translation
The Lord detests the way of the wicked, but he loves those who pursue godliness.
New Life Bible
The Lord hates the way of the sinful, but He loves him who follows what is right and good.
New Revised Standard
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord , but he loves the one who pursues righteousness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
An abomination to Yahweh, is the way of the lawless, but, the pursuer of righteousness, he loveth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: he that followeth justice is beloved by him.
Revised Standard Version
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.
Young's Literal Translation
An abomination to Jehovah [is] the way of the wicked, And whoso is pursuing righteousness He loveth.
THE MESSAGE
A life frittered away disgusts God ; he loves those who run straight for the finish line.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, But He loves one who pursues righteousness.

Contextual Overview

9 The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The way: Proverbs 4:19, Proverbs 21:4, Proverbs 21:8, Psalms 1:6, Psalms 146:8, Psalms 146:9, Matthew 7:13, Jeremiah 44:4, Habakkuk 1:13

he loveth: Proverbs 21:21, Isaiah 26:7, Isaiah 51:1, Isaiah 51:7, Hosea 6:3, 1 Timothy 6:11, 2 Timothy 2:22

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 29:17 - hast pleasure Proverbs 6:16 - an Romans 9:30 - followed 1 Corinthians 14:1 - Follow 1 Peter 3:13 - followers

Cross-References

Genesis 22:13
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
Leviticus 1:3
If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord.
Leviticus 1:10
And if his offering is of the flock, a burned offering of sheep or goats, let him give a male without a mark.
Leviticus 1:14
And if his offering to the Lord is a burned offering of birds, then he is to make his offering of doves or of young pigeons.
Leviticus 3:1
And if his offering is given for a peace-offering; if he gives of the herd, male or female, let him give it without any mark on it, before the Lord.
Leviticus 3:6
And if what he gives for a peace-offering to the Lord is of the flock, let him give a male or female, without any mark on it.
Leviticus 9:2
And he said to Aaron, Take a young ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering, without a mark, and make an offering of them before the Lord.
Leviticus 9:4
And an ox and a male sheep for peace-offerings, to be put to death before the Lord; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for this day you are to see the Lord.
Leviticus 12:8
And if she has not money enough for a lamb, then let her take two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burned offering and the other for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away her sin and she will be clean,
Leviticus 14:22
And two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and one will be for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The way of the wicked [is] an abomination unto the Lord,.... The way his heart devises, which he chooses and delights in, in which he walks; nor will he leave it, nor can he be diverted from it, but by the powerful grace of God. This is a way not good, but evil, and so an abomination to the Lord; and the whole tenor and course of his life, which is meant by his way being evil: hence his sacrifices, and all his external duties of religion performed by him, are abominable to the Lord; for, while he continues in a course of sin, all his religious exercises will be of no avail, cannot be pleasing and acceptable to God;

but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness; either after a justifying righteousness; not the righteousness of the law, which the carnal Jews followed after, but did not attain unto; nor is righteousness to be had by the works of the law, nor any justification by it, nor can a man be acceptable to God on account of it; but the righteousness of Christ, which he has wrought out, and is revealed in the Gospel: to follow after this supposes a want of one; a sense of that want; a view of the glory, fulness, suitableness, and excellency of Christ's righteousness; an eager desire after it, sometimes expressed by hungering and thirsting after it, as here by a pursuit of it; which means no other than an earnest and importunate request to be found in it: and such, as they shall be satisfied or filled with it, so they are loved by the Lord, and are acceptable to him through the righteousness they are seeking after: or else it may be understood of following after true holiness of heart and life, without which there is no seeing the Lord; and though perfection in it is not attainable in this live, yet a gracious soul presses after it, which is well pleasing in the sight of God.


 
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