Psalms 5:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.”
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“For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For not a God desiring wickedness <FI>art<Fi> Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 5:4 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 29:17I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
- Psalms 11:5The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
- Psalms 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
- Psalms 63:2So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.
- Psalms 88:14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- Psalms 92:15to proclaim, “The LORD is upright; He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”
- Psalms 94:20Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?
- Psalms 101:7No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.
- Psalms 140:13Surely the righteous will praise Your name; the upright will dwell in Your presence.
- Habakkuk 1:13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
- Malachi 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
- John 14:23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
- Hebrews 12:14Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
- 2 Peter 3:13But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
- Revelation 21:23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
- Revelation 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
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