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Proverbs 2:21
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For the upright will inhabit the land,and those of integrity will remain in it;
For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
Those who are honest will live in the land, and those who are innocent will remain in it.
For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
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;
For the upright will live in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;
For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
For the iust shal dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.
For the upright will dwell in the landAnd the blameless will remain in it;
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
If you are honest and innocent, you will keep your land;
For the upright will live in the land, the pure-hearted will remain there;
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;
Honest people will live in the land, and those who do right will remain there.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and those who are unblemished shall remain in it.
Righteous people—people of integrity—will live in this land of ours.
For those who are upright will dwell in the land, and those who are blameless will remain in it.
For the upright shall live in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
For the iust shal dwell in the londe, and the innocentes shal remayne in it:
For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the whole-hearted shall remain in it.
For the vpright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remaine in it.
For the iust shal dwell in the lande, and they that be perfect shall remayne in it.
For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Forsothe thei that ben riytful, schulen dwelle in the lond; and symple men schulen perfitli dwelle ther ynne.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;
For only the godly will live in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it.
For those who are right with God will live in the land. The men without blame will stay in it,
For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;
For, the upright, shall abide on the earth, - and, the men of integrity, shall remain therein;
For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it.
For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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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
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and lo, a dread and great darkness fell upon him.
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them.
Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
As he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me and set me on 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.
