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New Living Translation

Proverbs 28:4

To reject the law is to praise the wicked; to obey the law is to fight them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Law;   Wicked (People);   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Connivance;   Palliation of Sin;   Palliation-Denunciation;   Sin;   The Topic Concordance - Contention;   Forsaking;   Law;   Obedience;   Praise;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked,But those who keep the law strive with them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But those who keep the law strive with them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They that forsake the lawe, prayse the vngodly: but such as kepe the lawe are greeued at them.
Darby Translation
They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.
New King James Version
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But such as keep the law contend with them.
Literal Translation
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive with them.
Easy-to-Read Version
Those who refuse to obey the law promote evil. Those who obey the law oppose evil.
World English Bible
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; But those who keep the law contend with them.
King James Version (1611)
They that forsake the law, praise the wicked: but such as keepe the Law, contend with them.
King James Version
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They that forsake the lawe, prayse ye vngodly; but soch as kepe the lawe, abhorre them.
THE MESSAGE
If you desert God's law, you're free to embrace depravity; if you love God's law, you fight for it tooth and nail.
Amplified Bible
Those who set aside the law [of God and man] praise the wicked, But those who keep the law [of God and man] struggle with them.
American Standard Version
They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them.
Bible in Basic English
Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.
Update Bible Version
Those that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them.
Webster's Bible Translation
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
New English Translation
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.
Contemporary English Version
Lawbreakers praise criminals, but law-abiding citizens always oppose them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Those who abandon Torah praise the wicked, but those who keep Torah fight them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They that forsake the Law, prayse the wicked: but they that keepe the Law, set themselues against them.
George Lamsa Translation
Those who forsake the law glory in wickedness; but those who keep the law receive strength.
Hebrew Names Version
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; But those who keep the law contend with them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.
New Life Bible
Those who turn away from the law praise the sinful, but those who keep the law fight against them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou become like him.
English Revised Version
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Berean Standard Bible
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
New Revised Standard
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law struggle against them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They who forsake instruction, praise one who is lawless, while, they who keep instruction, are at strife with them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.
Lexham English Bible
Those who forsake instruction will praise the wicked, but they who guard instruction will struggle against them.
English Standard Version
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.
New American Standard Bible
Those who abandon the Law praise the wicked, But those who keep the Law strive against them.
New Century Version
Those who disobey what they have been taught praise the wicked, but those who obey what they have been taught are against them.
Good News Translation
If you have no regard for the law, you are on the side of the wicked; but if you obey it, you are against them.
Christian Standard Bible®
Those who reject the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law battle against them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei that forsaken the lawe, preisen a wickid man; thei that kepen `the lawe, ben kyndlid ayens hym.
Revised Standard Version
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.
Young's Literal Translation
Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.

Contextual Overview

4 To reject the law is to praise the wicked; to obey the law is to fight them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: 1 Samuel 23:19-21, Psalms 10:3, Psalms 49:18, Jeremiah 5:30, Matthew 3:15, Acts 12:22, Acts 24:2-4, Romans 1:32, 1 John 4:5

but: 1 Samuel 15:14-24, 1 Samuel 22:14, 1 Samuel 22:15, 1 Kings 18:18, 1 Kings 18:21, 1 Kings 20:41, 1 Kings 20:42, 1 Kings 21:19, 1 Kings 21:20, 1 Kings 22:19-28, 2 Kings 3:13, 2 Kings 3:14, Nehemiah 5:7-13, Nehemiah 13:8-11, Nehemiah 13:17-20, Nehemiah 13:23-26, Nehemiah 13:28, Matthew 3:7, Matthew 14:4, Acts 15:2, Acts 19:9, Galatians 2:3-6, Ephesians 5:11, 1 Thessalonians 2:2, Jude 1:3

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 6:19 - they reported Nehemiah 13:11 - contended Nehemiah 13:25 - I contended Psalms 89:30 - forsake Proverbs 17:4 - General Jeremiah 9:13 - General Micah 3:2 - love 2 Peter 2:15 - forsaken

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." And Abram built an altar there and dedicated it to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
Genesis 28:1
So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, "You must not marry any of these Canaanite women.
Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother's brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.
Genesis 28:6
Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, "You must not marry a Canaanite woman."
Genesis 28:7
He also knew that Jacob had obeyed his parents and gone to Paddan-aram.
Genesis 28:8
It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women.
Genesis 28:9
So Esau visited his uncle Ishmael's family and married one of Ishmael's daughters, in addition to the wives he already had. His new wife's name was Mahalath. She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son.
Genesis 28:12
As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.
Genesis 28:13
At the top of the stairway stood the Lord , and he said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They that forsake the law praise the wicked,.... Who are like them; who forsake and transgress the law, as they do; every like loves its like; wicked men delight in sin, the transgression of the law, and in those that do it. One covetous man will bless and praise another, whom the Lord abhors, and commend his covetousness as frugality and good husbandry: one proud man will call another happy, and praise him as a man of spirit, that will not debase himself, but keep up his authority, rank, and dignity, and not condescend to men of low estates; the workers of wickedness are set up and extolled, and tempters of God, men of atheistical and deistical principles, are not only delivered from the punishment they deserve, but are commended for their bold spirits; see Psalms 10:3. Or, "every wicked man praises those that forsake the law", so Schultens;

but such as keep the law contend with them; that is, with them that forsake it and praise the wicked; they are displeased with them, and show their resentment at them; they tend with them by arguments, and endeavour to convince them of their folly and wickedness; they prove them for it, even though they may be in high places, as John the Baptist reproved Herod. The Targum is,

"they contend with them, that they may return,''

or be converted; they strive and take pains with them, to convince them and bring them to repentance, and to a change of sentiments, life, and manners.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 28:4. They that forsake the law — He that transgresses says, in fact, that it is right to transgress; and thus other wicked persons are encouraged.


 
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