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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 37:27

Turn aside from evil, and do good; and dwell for ever.

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

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.
King James Version
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
English Standard Version
Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell 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.
Amplified Bible
Depart from evil and do good; And you will dwell [securely in the land] forever.
New American Standard Bible
Turn from evil and do good, So that you will dwell forever.
World English Bible
Depart from evil, and do good; Live securely forever.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Flee from euill and doe good, and dwell for euer.
Legacy Standard Bible
Depart from evil and do good,So you will dwell forever.
Berean Standard Bible
Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.
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.
Darby Translation
Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell for evermore;
Easy-to-Read Version
Stop doing anything evil and do good, and you will always have a place to live.
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;
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fle fro euell, & do ye thinge that is good, so shalt thou dwell for euer.
American Standard Version
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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Flee from euill & do good: and dwell for euer.
English Revised Version
Depart from evil, and do good; dwell for evermore.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bouwe thou awei fro yuel, and do good; and dwelle thou in to the world of world.
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.
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.
New Revised Standard
Depart from evil, and do good; so you shall abide 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.
Revised Standard Version
Depart from evil, and do good; so shall you abide for ever.
Young's Literal Translation
Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age.
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.

Contextual Overview

21 The sinner borrows, and will not pay again: but the righteous has compassion, and gives. 22 For they that bless him shall inherit the earth; and they that curse him shall be utterly destroyed. 23 The steps of a man are rightly ordered by the Lord: and he will take pleasure in his way. 24 When he falls, he shall not be ruined: for the Lord supports his hand. 25 I was once young, indeed I am now old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread. 26 He is merciful, and lends continually; and his seed shall be blessed. 27 Turn aside from evil, and do good; and dwell for ever. 28 For the Lord loves judgment, and will not forsake his saints; they shall be preserved for ever: the blameless shall be avenged, but the seed of the ungodly shall be utterly destroyed. 29 But the righteous shall inherit the earth, and dwell upon it for ever. 30 The mouth of the righteous will meditate wisdom, and his tongue will speak of judgment.

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
And Laban said to him, Thou art of my bones and of my flesh; and he was with him a full month.
Genesis 37:14
And Israel said to him, Go and see if thy brethren and the sheep are well, and bring me word; and he sent him out of the valley of Chebron, and he came to Sychem.
Genesis 37:17
And the man said to him, They have departed hence, for I heard them saying, Let us go to Dothaim; and Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothaim.
Genesis 37:22
And Ruben said to them, Shed not blood; cast him into one of these pits in the wilderness, but do not lay your hands upon him; that he might rescue him out of their hands, and restore him to his father.
Genesis 42:21
And each said to his brother, Yes, indeed, for we are in fault concerning our brother, when we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we hearkened not to him; and therefore has this affliction come upon us.
Exodus 21:16
(21:17) Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him certainly die.
Exodus 21:21
But if the servant continue to live a day or two, let not the master be punished; for he is his money.
2 Samuel 12:9
Why hast thou set at nought the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? thou hast slain Urias the Chettite with the sword, and thou hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and thou hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Nehemiah 5:8
and I said to them, We of our free-will have redeemed our brethren the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do ye sell your brethren? and shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer.

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;

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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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