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Psalms 37:27

Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for 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.
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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(36-27) Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever.
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 The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others. 22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off. 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way. 24 Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him. 25 I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread. 26 All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing. 27 Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever. 28 For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off. 29 The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever. 30 The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.

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
And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.
Genesis 37:14
And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Genesis 37:17
And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan.
Genesis 37:22
Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again.
Genesis 42:21
And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.
Exodus 21:16
Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.
Exodus 21:21
But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.
2 Samuel 12:9
Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

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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