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Green's Literal Translation

Psalms 37:27

Turn away from evil and do good and live forever.

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.
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.
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 wicked borrows and never repays, but the righteous is gracious and giving. 22 For His blessed ones inherit the earth; and those cursed by Him shall be cut off. 23 The steps of a good man are established from Jehovah; and He will delight in his way. 24 Though he falls, he is not cast down; for Jehovah upholds his hand. 25 I have been young and am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging bread. 26 All the day he is gracious and lends; and his seed is for a blessing. 27 Turn away from evil and do good and live forever. 28 For Jehovah loves judgment and does not forsake His saints; they are preserved forever; but the wicked's seed shall be cut off. 29 The righteous shall inherit the earth and live on it forever. 30 The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks 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
And Laban said to him, Truly you are my bone and my flesh. And he lived with him a month of days.
Genesis 37:14
And he said to him, Now go, see the welfare of your brothers, and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me. And he sent him out of the valley of Hebron. And he came to Shechem.
Genesis 37:17
And the man said, They have left here, for I heard them say, Let us go towards Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
Genesis 37:22
And Reuben said to them, Do not shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him; so that he might deliver him from their hands, to return him to his father.
Genesis 42:21
And they said each to his brother, We are truly guilty because of our brother whom we saw in distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we did not hear. So this distress has come to us.
Exodus 21:16
And he that steals a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, dying he shall die.
Exodus 21:21
But if he continues a day or two, he shall not be avenged, for he is his silver.
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab! I will give her to you for a wife; only, you be a brave son for me and fight the battles of Jehovah. And Saul said, Let not my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be onhim.
2 Samuel 12:9
Why have you despised the Word of Jehovah, to do the evil in His eyes? You have stricken Uriah the Hittite by the sword, and you have taken his wife to yourself for a wife. And you have killed him by the sword of the sons of Ammon.
Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. And will you yet sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and did not find 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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