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Good News Translation

Proverbs 2:21

Righteous people—people of integrity—will live in this land of ours.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chastity;   Perfection;   Righteous;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Promises, Divine;   Reward;   Uprightness;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Transgression;   Uprightness;   Wickedness;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Perfection;   Uprightness;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Perfect;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Perfection;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the upright will inhabit the land,and those of integrity will remain in it;
Hebrew Names Version
For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
King James Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
English Standard Version
For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
New Century Version
Those who are honest will live in the land, and those who are innocent will remain in it.
New English Translation
For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
Amplified Bible
For the upright [those who are in right standing with God] will live in the land And those [of integrity] who are blameless [in God's sight] will remain in it;
New American Standard Bible
For the upright will live in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;
World English Bible
For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the iust shal dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the upright will dwell in the landAnd the blameless will remain in it;
Berean Standard Bible
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
Contemporary English Version
If you are honest and innocent, you will keep your land;
Complete Jewish Bible
For the upright will live in the land, the pure-hearted will remain there;
Darby Translation
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;
Easy-to-Read Version
Honest people will live in the land, and those who do right will remain there.
George Lamsa Translation
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and those who are unblemished shall remain in it.
Lexham English Bible
For those who are upright will dwell in the land, and those who are blameless will remain in it.
Literal Translation
For the upright shall live in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the iust shal dwell in the londe, and the innocentes shal remayne in it:
American Standard Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
Bible in Basic English
For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the whole-hearted shall remain in it.
King James Version (1611)
For the vpright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remaine in it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the iust shal dwell in the lande, and they that be perfect shall remayne in it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.
English Revised Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe thei that ben riytful, schulen dwelle in the lond; and symple men schulen perfitli dwelle ther ynne.
Update Bible Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
New King James Version
For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;
New Living Translation
For only the godly will live in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it.
New Life Bible
For those who are right with God will live in the land. The men without blame will stay in it,
New Revised Standard
For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, the upright, shall abide on the earth, - and, the men of integrity, shall remain therein;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it.
Revised Standard Version
For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it;
Young's Literal Translation
For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it;

Contextual Overview

10 You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure. 11 Your insight and understanding will protect you 12 and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say— 13 those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin, 14 those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil, 15 unreliable people who cannot be trusted. 16 You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk, 17 who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows. 18 If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead. 19 No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 1:1, Job 42:12, Psalms 37:3, Psalms 37:9, Psalms 37:11, Psalms 37:22, Psalms 37:29, Psalms 84:11, Psalms 112:4-6

Reciprocal: Psalms 7:10 - which Psalms 51:6 - Behold

Cross-References

Genesis 15:12
When the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over him.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the water jar from right beside Saul's head, and he and Abishai left. No one saw it or knew what had happened or even woke up—they were all sound asleep, because the Lord had sent a heavy sleep on them all.
Job 4:13
Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.
Job 33:15
At night when people are asleep, God speaks in dreams and visions.
Proverbs 19:15
Go ahead and be lazy; sleep on, but you will go hungry.
Daniel 8:18
While he was talking, I fell to the ground unconscious. But he took hold of me, raised me to my feet,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the upright shall dwell in the land,.... Such as are upright in heart, who have a right spirit renewed in them; whose hearts are right with God, have the truth of grace in them; whose faith is unfeigned, their love without dissimulation, and their hope without hypocrisy; and who are upright in their lives and conversations; these being Israelites according to the flesh, as well as Israelites indeed in a spiritual sense, shall dwell in the land of Canaan, which the Lord promised to such, and which good men enjoyed by virtue of it: or the sense is, that such shall dwell peaceably and quietly in the world, and possess the good things of it, though in a small quantity, in such a comfortable manner, with the love of God and a sense of it, as wicked men do not; or else they shall inhabit the world to come, as Jarchi interprets it; not only a future state of happiness in heaven, but the Messiah's kingdom on earth, the new heavens and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, 2 Peter 3:13;

and the perfect shall remain in it; or "be left in it" a; or shall be "strengthened" b, confirmed, and established in it; or they shall dwell in it as a tent or tabernacle, bound with strong cords; see

Isaiah 33:20; or continue there, when others should have no place in it, as follows. By the "perfect" are meant such as have all grace seminally implanted in them, though it is not come up to maturity; who have a perfection of parts, but not of degrees; are properly men in Christ, though they are not arrived to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; are perfectly holy in Christ, though not in themselves; and are perfectly justified by his righteousness, and perfectly comely through his comeliness, though as yet imperfect in themselves; and those that shall dwell in the new heavens and new earth, and remain there a thousand years, shall be entirely perfect in soul and body, wholly without sin; and complete in knowledge, holiness, and peace: the Targum renders it, who are "without spot", undefiled persons; such who are not defiled with women, with the strange woman before mentioned; whose garments are not defiled, and who are free from the pollution of false doctrine, will worship, superstition, and idolatry, Revelation 3:4.

a יותדו "superstites erunt", Tigurine version, Mercerus; "superstitabunt", Cocceius; "reliqui fient", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "relinquentur", Michaelis. b "Nervabuntur", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Noticeable here is the Hebrew love of home and love of country. To “dwell in the land” is (compare Exodus 20:12; Leviticus 25:18, etc.) the highest blessing for the whole people and for individual men. contrast with it is the life of the sinner cut off from the land (not “earth”) of his fathers.


 
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