Psalms 5:4
For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.
BSB
ASV
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
KJV
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Neither shall the malignant one dwell beside Thee. When someone who is evil withdraws from us, let us rejoice: this happens in us which happens also in the Lord. For see what the Holy Spirit says. Neither shall the malignant one dwell beside Thee. See what he says, the malignant one shall not dwell beside Thee. 'For what communion has light with darkness? what agreement has Christ with Belial?'
Neither shall evil dwell with thee - As thou art holy, so thou hast pleasure only in holiness; and as to evil men, they shall never enter into thy glory; לא יגרך רע lo yegurecha ra, “the evil man shall not even sojourn with thee.”
And now the Psalmist having thus expressed his resolution to pray, you hear him putting up his prayer. He is pleading against his cruel and wicked enemies. He uses a most mighty argument. He begs of God to put them away from him, because they were displeasing to God himself. "For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.""When I pray against my tempters, " says David, "I pray against the very things which thou thyself abhorrest." Thou hatest evil: Lord, I beseech thee, deliver me from it!
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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Hebrews 12:14Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
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Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.
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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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Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.