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Psalms 37:27

(36-27) Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and 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.
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.
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.
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 (36-21) The sinner shall borrow, and not pay again; but the just sheweth mercy and shall give. 22 (36-22) For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse him shall perish. 23 (36-23) With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall like well his way. 24 (36-24) When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, for the Lord putteth his hand under him. 25 (36-25) I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread. 26 (36-26) He sheweth mercy, and lendeth all the day long; and his seed shall be in blessing. 27 (36-27) Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever. 28 (36-28) For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish. 29 (36-29) But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for evermore. 30 (36-30) The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak 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
He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,
Genesis 37:14
I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:
Genesis 37:17
And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.
Genesis 37:22
Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father.
Genesis 42:21
And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.
Exodus 21:16
He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.
Exodus 21:21
But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will I give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hands of the Philistines be upon him.
2 Samuel 12:9
Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their peace, and found not what to 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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