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Proverbs 2:21

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chastity;   Perfection;   Righteous;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Promises, Divine;   Reward;   Uprightness;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Transgression;   Uprightness;   Wickedness;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Perfection;   Uprightness;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Perfect;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Perfection;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the upright will inhabit the land,and those of integrity will remain in it;
Hebrew Names Version
For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
King James Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
English Standard Version
For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
New Century Version
Those who are honest will live in the land, and those who are innocent will remain in it.
New English Translation
For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
Amplified Bible
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;
New American Standard Bible
For the upright will live in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;
World English Bible
For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the iust shal dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the upright will dwell in the landAnd the blameless will remain in it;
Berean Standard Bible
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
Contemporary English Version
If you are honest and innocent, you will keep your land;
Complete Jewish Bible
For the upright will live in the land, the pure-hearted will remain there;
Darby Translation
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;
Easy-to-Read Version
Honest people will live in the land, and those who do right will remain there.
George Lamsa Translation
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and those who are unblemished shall remain in it.
Good News Translation
Righteous people—people of integrity—will live in this land of ours.
Lexham English Bible
For those who are upright will dwell in the land, and those who are blameless will remain in it.
Literal Translation
For the upright shall live in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the iust shal dwell in the londe, and the innocentes shal remayne in it:
American Standard Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
Bible in Basic English
For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the whole-hearted shall remain in it.
King James Version (1611)
For the vpright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remaine in it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the iust shal dwell in the lande, and they that be perfect shall remayne in it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.
English Revised Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe thei that ben riytful, schulen dwelle in the lond; and symple men schulen perfitli dwelle ther ynne.
Update Bible Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
New King James Version
For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;
New Living Translation
For only the godly will live in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it.
New Life Bible
For those who are right with God will live in the land. The men without blame will stay in it,
New Revised Standard
For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, the upright, shall abide on the earth, - and, the men of integrity, shall remain therein;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it.
Revised Standard Version
For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it;
Young's Literal Translation
For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it;

Contextual Overview

16Wise friends will rescue you from the Temptress— that smooth-talking Seductress Who's faithless to the husband she married years ago, never gave a second thought to her promises before God. Her whole way of life is doomed; every step she takes brings her closer to hell. No one who joins her company ever comes back, ever sets foot on the path to real living. 20So—join the company of good men and women, keep your feet on the tried-and-true paths. It's the men who walk straight who will settle this land, the women with integrity who will last here. The corrupt will lose their lives; the dishonest will be gone for good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

1 Samuel 26:12
David took the spear and water jug that were right beside Saul's head, and they slipped away. Not a soul saw. Not a soul knew. No one woke up! They all slept through the whole thing. A blanket of deep sleep from God had fallen on them.
Job 33:15
"In a dream, for instance, a vision at night, when men and women are deep in sleep, fast asleep in their beds— God opens their ears and impresses them with warnings To turn them back from something bad they're planning, from some reckless choice, And keep them from an early grave, from the river of no return.
Proverbs 19:15
Life collapses on loafers; lazybones go hungry.
Daniel 8:18
A Vision of a Ram and a Billy Goat "In King Belshazzar's third year as king, another vision came to me, Daniel. This was now the second vision. "In the vision, I saw myself in Susa, the capital city of the province Elam, standing at the Ulai Canal. Looking around, I was surprised to see a ram also standing at the gate. The ram had two huge horns, one bigger than the other, but the bigger horn was the last to appear. I watched as the ram charged: first west, then north, then south. No beast could stand up to him. He did just as he pleased, strutting as if he were king of the beasts. "While I was watching this, wondering what it all meant, I saw a billy goat with an immense horn in the middle of its forehead come up out of the west and fly across the whole country, not once touching the ground. The billy goat approached the double-horned ram that I had earlier seen standing at the gate and, enraged, charged it viciously. I watched as, mad with rage, it charged the ram and hit it so hard that it broke off its two horns. The ram didn't stand a chance against it. The billy goat knocked the ram to the ground and stomped all over it. Nothing could have saved the ram from the goat. "Then the billy goat swelled to an enormous size. At the height of its power its immense horn broke off and four other big horns sprouted in its place, pointing to the four points of the compass. And then from one of these big horns another horn sprouted. It started small, but then grew to an enormous size, facing south and east—toward lovely Palestine. The horn grew tall, reaching to the stars, the heavenly army, and threw some of the stars to the earth and stomped on them. It even dared to challenge the power of God, Prince of the Celestial Army! And then it threw out daily worship and desecrated the Sanctuary. As judgment against their sin, the holy people of God got the same treatment as the daily worship. The horn cast God's Truth aside. High-handed, it took over everything and everyone. "Then I overheard two holy angels talking. One asked, ‘How long is what we see here going to last—the abolishing of daily worship, this devastating judgment against sin, the kicking around of God's holy people and the Sanctuary?' "The other answered, ‘Over the course of 2,300 sacrifices, evening and morning. Then the Sanctuary will be set right again.' "While I, Daniel, was trying to make sense of what I was seeing, suddenly there was a humanlike figure standing before me. "Then I heard a man's voice from over by the Ulai Canal calling out, ‘Gabriel, tell this man what is going on. Explain the vision to him.' He came up to me, but when he got close I became terrified and fell facedown on the ground. "He said, ‘Understand that this vision has to do with the time of the end.' As soon as he spoke, I fainted, my face in the dirt. But he picked me up and put 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.


 
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