Psalms 26:9
Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
BSB
ASV
Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood;
KJV
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Gather not my soul with sinners. Lord, when, like fruit, I must be gathered, put me not in the same basket with the best of sinners, much less with the worst of them. The company of sinners is so distasteful to us here, that we cannot endure the thought of being bound up in the same bundle with them to all eternity. Our comfort is, that the Great Husbandman discerns the tares from the wheat, and will find a separate place for distinct characters.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 25:32All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
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So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous,
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
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Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
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And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the…
The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods…