Psalms 26:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 1:1 : 1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
  • Jer 15:17 : 17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.
  • Ps 119:115 : 115 Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.
  • Prov 12:11 : 11 He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
  • Ps 119:63 : 63 I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 26:5-6
    2 verses
    86%

    5 I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

    6 I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

  • Ps 26:8-9
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    74%

    8 Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

    9 Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;

  • Ps 101:3-4
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    3 I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.

    4 The false heart I will send away from me: I will not have an evil-doer for a friend.

  • Jer 15:17
    74%

    17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.

  • Ps 26:3
    73%

    3 For your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith.

  • Ps 31:6
    72%

    6 I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.

  • Job 27:4-5
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    71%

    4 Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.

    5 Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

  • Ps 141:4
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    4 Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.

  • 2 Sam 22:22-24
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    70%

    22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

    23 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

    24 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

  • Ps 101:7
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    7 The worker of deceit will not come into my house; the false man will have no place before my eyes.

  • Job 34:8
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    8 And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?

  • Ps 40:9-10
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    9 I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.

    10 Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

  • Ps 18:21
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    21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

  • Ps 26:1
    70%

    1 <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

  • Ps 24:4
    69%

    4 He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

  • Ps 132:3
    69%

    3 Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed,

  • Prov 4:14
    69%

    14 Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

  • Ps 26:11
    69%

    11 But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

  • Job 31:5
    69%

    5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

  • Prov 24:1
    69%

    1 Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:

  • Ps 28:3
    69%

    3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

  • Jer 17:16
    68%

    16 As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.

  • Ps 1:1
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    1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

  • Job 23:11
    68%

    11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

  • Ps 5:4
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    4 For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

  • Prov 26:24
    68%

    24 With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

  • Ps 119:101
    68%

    101 I have kept back my feet from all evil ways, so that I might be true to your word.

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    68%

    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

    30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

  • Ps 17:3
    68%

    3 You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.

  • Job 32:21
    68%

    21 Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.

  • Prov 1:15
    67%

    15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Ps 55:12
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    12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • 1 Sam 12:4
    67%

    4 And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.

  • Prov 25:6
    67%

    6 Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:

  • Jer 16:8
    67%

    8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

  • Prov 26:19
    67%

    19 So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

  • 1 Kgs 13:16
    67%

    16 But he said, I may not go back with you or go into your house; and I will not take food or a drink of water with you in this place;

  • Ps 119:22
    66%

    22 Take away from me shame and bitter words; for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.

  • Exod 23:1
    66%

    1 Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

  • Ps 18:23
    66%

    23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

  • Ps 119:11
    66%

    11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

  • Ps 119:46
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    46 So that I may give knowledge of your unchanging word before kings, and not be put to shame.